dry-goods-box

Updated: July 19, 2025

There were here no tousled heads, no peering children, no odors of whiskey, cabbage, and unclean humanity. There were two beds, three broken chairs, a dry-goods-box table, and a stove with a faint glow of light that told of a fire not nearly brisk enough to heat even that tiny room. On one of the beds lay a lad with flushed cheeks and fever-bright eyes.

Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter - Pollyanna Grows Up

Seeing that I needed help, she unrolled a newspaper bundle and hung her "extra" dress and nightgown on a nail, laid a comb and a toothbrush on the dry-goods-box dressing table, and for two weeks she "threw" out the paper with a bang. About this time the régime of our government was changing.

Edith Eudora Kohl - Land of the Burnt Thigh