Modern dwellings in town and country adapted to American wants and climate with a treatise on furniture and decoration (1878)
Holly, Henry Hudson, 1834-1892 · New York, Harper & brothers, publishers · leaf 139
alcove, in which settles may be placed, accommodating a party of six oreight persons. Here we realize the poetical idea of the chimney-corner,around which so many tender memories of early days are centred. There,in our childhood, our first Bible lessons were vividly impressed upon ourminds from the… … Bedroom, in Design No. 22. nary portraits of the goblins in the burning embers, and the legend ofSanta Clans seemed not improbable while Ave peered up into that greatchimney. It is pleasant, too, to recall the holiday games played withoutcheck in the old hall, while the yule-log burned merrily upon…
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