The Mortgage on the Hip-Roof House (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Mortgage on the Hip-Roof House The table was of white rock-maple of a very peculiar grain, supported on two pairs of crossed legs connected by braces running from the top of one set to the bottom of the other, on each side. Across each end was nailed a narrow strip of that beautiful wood, the sycamore, the soft, reddish surface of which, dotted with minute yellow scales, contrasted pleasantly with the snowy maple. The whole was spotlessly clean, and bore evidence of that peculiar finish which only years of use and frequent scouring can confer. Looking at the-edges, one could see that the boards had been worn thinner in the middle than at either end. The bov took some blue-edged plates with curious dragon figures in the middle, and some little horn handled knives and forks, the former thin and narrow, from a cupboard in the corner of the room, and placed them on the table. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.