This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 edition. Excerpt: ... sending as many different articles as the basket could be persuaded to receive, each contained in that characteristic of the country, a pint bowl. ' ' But, ob, the ironing days! Memory shrinks from the review.' Some of the ordinary house In. hold aflairs could be managed by the aid dais! made on some large stones at 1 little distant from the house, and this did very well when Ii! wind sat in the right quarter, which it did natalways, as witness the. remains of the pretty pink gingham, which fell a sacrifice to my desire form afternoon cup of coflee. But the ironing and ill! baking were imperious; and my forest Hem who seemed at times to Lvlong to the salamandfl tribe, always made as much fire as the stick chimney, with its crumbling clay lining, could possibly bear. She often succeeded in bringing to a whits heat the immense stone which served as a chislney back, while the deep gaps in the stone hearfll, which Alice called the Rocky Mountains, were filled with burning coals out to the very floor. I have sometimes suspected that the woman loved to torment me, but perhaps I was wrong. She was excused, I dare say, for she looked like one exsiccated in consequence of ceaseless perspiration. When the day declined, and its business was laid aside, it was our practice to walk to and fro before the door, till the house had been thorougbly cooled by the night air; and these promenades, usually made pleasant by long talks about home, and laughing conjectures as to what and would say if they saw our way of life, were frequently prolonged to a late hour. And to this most imprudent indulgence we could not but trace the agues which soon prostrated most of us. VVe had, to be sure, been warned by our castern friends that we should certainly have the...