House-Warming
heavens;
even after t still stands sometimes, and its
importance and independence are apparent. tohe end
of summer. It was now November.
to cool t
took many eady bloo accomplis, it is so deep.
o evening, before I plastered my house,
ticularly he numerous
c I passed some cheerful evenings in
t cool and airy apartment, surrounded by the rough brown boards
full of knots, and rafters he bark on high overhead. My house
never pleased my eye so mucer it ered, though I was
obliged to confess t it able. S every
apartment in e some
obscurity over evening
about ters? to the fancy and
imagination tings or ot expensive
furniture. I no began to in my house, I may say, when I
began to use it for er. I a couple
of old fire-dogs to keep t did me
good to see t form on the chimney which I had
built, and I poked t and more satisfaction
tertain an
ec; but it seemed larger for being a single apartment and
remote from neigtractions of a house were
concentrated in one room; it chen, chamber, parlor, and
keeping-room; and isfaction parent or cer or
servant, derive from living in a all. Cato
says, ter of a family (patremfamilias) must have in his
rustic villa quot;cellam oleariam, vinariam, dolia multa, uti lubeat
caritatem expectare, et rei, et virtuti, et gloriae erit,quot; t is,