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Updated: May 5, 2025
The wind may whistle through the chinks, and the rain come through the roof, but the stranger is well warmed, and comfortably lodged; and above all, he has the host to wait upon him with more attention than a servant. The supper is served as soon as the sun sets. But where is the table? There is none. Is the supper placed on the floor? Not so. It is brought in on stools with three legs.
The badger is worth a hundred of it not a pin's worth in that volume but worked stools and chairs, and China jugs and mugs. Oh! throw it from you. Come away." Another time, at the very death of Clarissa, King Corny would have Harry out to see a Solan goose.
Then the dame brought two fine new stools whew! that was a sensation; it was visible in the eyes of every guest. Then she brought two more as calmly as she could. Sensation again with awed murmurs. Again she brought two walking on air, she was so proud. The guests were petrified, and the mason muttered: "There is that about earthly pomps which doth ever move to reverence."
A quaintly-carved side board held an array of bright pewter pots and dishes and wooden and earthen bowls; a stout oak table went up and down the room, and a carved oak chair stood by the chimney-corner, now filled by a very old man dim-eyed and white-bearded. That, except the rough stools and benches on which the company sat, was all the furniture.
The Irish "bull" is a heroic and sometimes successful attempt to sit upon two stools at once, or, as an Irishman put it, "Englishmen often make 'bulls, but the Irish 'bull' is always pregnant." Sir Walter Scott's splendid tribute to the genius of Maria Edgeworth is regarded by some critics as extravagant, but it is largely confirmed in a most unexpected quarter.
"Call it what you please," I snapped, for at the time I thought my labour psychologist was a fool, "but get those stools, immediately." "But it would never do." "Why not?" "Because these men have always stood at their work." "But why can they not sit down now?" "Because they never have sat down." "Do they not sit down to eat?" "Yes, but not to work. It is very different.
The two rooms intended for the occupation of the children were neat and clean, but perfectly simple, with whitewashed walls, furnished only with wooden stools and benches, and plain deal tables. The school-room opened into a garden larger than is usually seen in towns.
The room we were in, crowded with pigeon-holes and dusty documents from ceiling to floor, looked out into an outer office, similarly dreary, and painted a dirty blue and white, furnished with high desks and stools, and railed off with ancient painted ironwork, forlornly decorative, after the manner of an old-fashioned countinghouse, or shipping office.
On stools running end to end along one side of the room sat about twenty more or less blooming country girls of from fifteen to twenty odd. On the rest of the stools, running end to end along the other wall, sat about twenty more or less blooming chaps. It was evident that something was seriously wrong. None of the girls spoke above a hushed whisper. None of the men spoke above a hushed oath.
It would be cruel, and is quite unnecessary, to insist on the too certain fact that, in this instance at any rate, these excellent qualities were accompanied by a distinct weakness of will, by a mania for sitting between two stools, and by that it may be lovable, it may be even estimable incapacity to think, to speak, to behave like a man of this world, which besets the conscientious idealist who is not a fanatic.
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