Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 20, 2025
The fireplaces in both rooms were in a shocking state of disrepair, but one didn't mind that, as in winter a fire burned in them, and in summer they were boarded up with fireboards covered with cut-out pictures pasted on a background of black calico.
Removing the fireboards, he would gaze up the flues. But no sign of the hidden work yet. Now, on the second floor the rooms were the most rambling conceivable. They, as it were, dovetailed into each other. They were of all shapes; not one mathematically square room among them all a peculiarity which by the master-mason had not been unobserved.
Indoors, there are many things to be observed and appraised but fireplaces come first. A country home without facilities for open fires is as uninviting as one without trees and flowers. Expect to find the fireplaces disused and closed with fireboards or bricks. Sometimes the mantels have been removed and new flooring laid over the hearthstones.
There my two Gothic fireboards were to be turned into a pulpit for the occasion. I went to Jacksonville and got a fiveinch moulding for a base, and then had one fireboard sawed in two, so that there was an arched panel for each end. Then came a rummage for something for a top, and to make a desk of, until it suddenly occurred to me that our old black walnut extension table had a set of leaves.
One girl holds the spindle and steadies the fireboard while the other does the twirling. =The Plough= It is more difficult to produce fire by the plough method than with the bow, but it can be done. The appliances are simple enough. Other woods than spruce are used with success for fire-drills and fireboards, but all must be dry.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking