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Two large spoons. One small one. Nest of wooden boxes for rice, tapioca, &c. Wooden pails for graham and corn meal. Chopping-tray. Water-pail. Scrubbing-pail. Wooden cover for flour-barrel. One board for cutting bread. One partitioned knife-box. One pair of scales. One two-gallon pot with steamer to fit. One three-gallon soup-pot with close-fitting cover.

A wooden trough, like a chopping-tray, was the washtub. The ironing or mangling apparatus consisted of a rolling-pin, round which the article of clothing was wrapped, and a curved paddle of hard wood, its under-surface carved in pretty geometrical designs, with which it was smoothed.

She was leaning against the barrier of a patent pop-corn establishment, which had given her a sudden reminder of home, and of the winter nights when the sharp-kerneled little red and yellow ears were brought out, and Old Uncle Eph Flanders sat by the kitchen stove, and solemnly filled a great wooden chopping-tray for the refreshment of the company.

Strong knives and forks, a sharp carving-knife, an iron cleaver and board, a fine saw, steelyards, chopping-tray and knife, an apple-parer, steel for sharpening knives, sugar-nippers, a dozen iron spoons, also a large iron one with a long handle, six or eight flat-irons, one of them very small, two iron-stands, a ruffle-iron, a crimping-iron, are also desirable. Tin Ware.