cattle-medicines

Updated: May 13, 2025

Through the mellow dusk, as through the varnish of an old picture, one saw the different objects in a golden light and shade the brass warming-pan hanging beside the tall eight-day clock the table in front of the long window-seat, covered with its checked red cloth the carved door of a cupboard in the wall bearing the date 1679 the miscellaneous store of things packed away under the black rafters, dried herbs and tools, bundles of list and twine, the spindles of old spinning wheels, cattle-medicines, and the like the heavy oaken chairs the settle beside the fire, with its hard cushions and scrolled back.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I