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Updated: May 15, 2025
"An' there's the the pay." Susan looked up, her voice vibrating with fearful doubts. "Oh, that's all right." The man lifted his head with the air of one who at last has reached firm ground after a dangerous crossing on thin ice. "The doctor's going to buy the highboy and that mirror in the studio, and oh, several other things."
So, too, was Hortense, and she did not awaken in the morning until ten o'clock when the sun was shining high. Her only thought was of Tom and Jerry and what might have become of them, until she tried to open a drawer in the highboy to find a dress when she also remembered that Highboy and Lowboy were imprisoned. The drawer wouldn't open; it was stuck fast. So, too, were the other drawers.
If you want to unpack immediately there is a dandy closet here, and here is a wardrobe and here is a highboy and here a bureau. Uncle Billy can take your trunks to the attic when you empty them. I wish I could help you, but Mumsy and I are up to our necks canning peaches and we can't stop a minute. If you want to come help peel we'd be delighted.
Only a short time ago I saw a whole turkey served for a Thanksgiving feast at a large restaurant. It vaunted itself as a regular turkey and was extensively charged for as such on the bill. It wasn't though. It was an ancient and a shabby ruin a genuine antique if ever there was one, with those high-polished knobs all down the front, like an old-fashioned highboy, and Chippendale legs.
Again, a "Colonial highboy, hooded," recalled as an especially awkward thing, and "five mahogany side chairs" had gone for three hundred and eighty dollars.
Besides, your Grandmother has me half filled with her knitting and things. I must say I prefer cookies." "I wish," said Highboy to Hortense, "that you hadn't packed away that last dress in my bottom drawer." "Don't you see that you've grown small?" Hortense asked. "Too small for the cookies," said Lowboy. "My clothes are so tight that I can't squeeze this last piece into my pocket."
"Ember's It, and we've waited ever so long." "Alligator's swallowed Jeremiah," said Hortense. "Served him right," said Owl, but Coal and Ember backed off as though fearing their turn would be next. Lowboy was sober for once. "I want to go home," whimpered Highboy. "Why didn't you let me run him through first?" demanded Malay Kris. "I'd have skewered him like a roast of beef."
He went to the lower drawer of a tall "highboy" and, from the tumbled mass of apparel therein took one of his own night garments. "Here's one," he said, coming back with it in his hand. "I guess you'll have to make this do for now. It'll fit you enough for three times to once, but it's all I've got." A small hand reached 'round the edge of the door and the nightshirt disappeared.
"But, of course," said Hortense, "I can talk to Owl, and Malay Kris, and to Highboy, and Lowboy, and we can lay our plans for the rescue." Rescue From the Mountain Side Hortense sat quietly in the corner of the kitchen on a stool watching Aunt Esmerelda at her work.
The other furniture should consist of a dressing-table, a chest of drawers to correspond with a chiffonier, a highboy, a sewing table, a bedside table, a comfortable sofa, a fireside or wing chair and other chairs according to one's need. The walls may be covered with either an old-fashioned or plain paper, or paneled, with hangings and chair coverings of chintz or cretonne.
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