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A smile touched the face of Andrew Barkswell. "A confounded notion peddler," he muttered, "yet a queer-looking specimen." "Hello!" At the second call Barkswell rose to his feet and walked out to the gate. "Be you the man of the house?" "I am." "Wal, I've got the neatest set o' table-clothes you ever set eyes on.
As a table was in early days a board, so a tablecloth was a board-cloth; and ere it was a tablecloth it was table-clothes. Cristowell Gallup, in 1655, had "1 Holland board-cloth;" and William Metcalf, in 1644, had a "diaper board-cloth." Another Boston citizen had "broad-clothes." Others had holland tablecloths and holland square cloths with lace on them.
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