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Recollections of Auton House (1909)

Hoppin, Augustus, 1828-1896 · Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin · leaf 61

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ck, stoodon the front stairs passing buckets,while a band of swells in whitekids (white kids were then fashionable) worked the kitchen-pump,and slopped the water over the brussels carpets. It was a pictur-esque and lively scene for some time. Happily the conflagration was arrested, and everybody… … THE MIDDLE CHAMBER. 57 to scrape down their sooty sides, and his melodious carol was pipedin the crisp morning air from the topmost stone of our neighborssmoke-stack. T. Auton owned a white Cade lamb. This animalwore a red morocco collar,and followed its master aboutthe streets. Everywhere T. Auton…

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