Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 20
or pirates, or even plain hide-and-seek, especially now that a modern portiire hidesthe door as well as the staircase ! Most of theother doors led into closets — the great closetsstored with china so beautiful that it all might beput nowadays behind glass doors in the parlor.In one of these, great… … rich blue. The big round pewter platter,on which the whole of a boiled dinnerused to be sent up, now hangs on the wallas a curious plaque; but the shelves are lined withqueer coffee-pots, and great mugs,— with perhapsa china frog, life-size and raised from the bottom inrelief so that whoever drank…
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