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Updated: May 17, 2025
Often a huge side-board rose from the floor to the low, open-beamed ceiling. Pictures of saints adorned the walls. A spinning-wheel stood in the corner, sharing place perhaps with a musket set on the floor stock downward, but primed for ready use. Adjoining this room was the kitchen with its fireplace for cooking, its array of pots and dishes, its cupboards, shelves, and other furnishings.
The public room was a fine old apartment with open-beamed ceiling not the sham with which we decorate our modern houses, but real open beams that supported the floor and one end of the room was occupied by a great open fireplace with old-time spits and swinging cranes.
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