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Title: A book of country clouds and sunshine;
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: New England — Social life and customs
Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shepard
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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stgales will blow through anything. In large houses, with the stoverooms on the southside, keeping warm isless difficult. Prob-ably much of thetime a country sit-ting-room is toowarm, rather thantoo cold. The inhab-itants feel obliged tohave a contrast withthe frost outside, andin many farmhousesthe air in the littlesitting-room is keptfairly baked. Theinmates would thinkthemselves seriouslychilly in a coal-firetemperature of sev-enty degrees. A wood fire in a sheet-iron stove sends out a trulyblistering heat if it is attended to ; but if continuous attentionis not given, it fluctuates. It may amount to about the sameas being cooked in an oven one half-hour ; and inside of thenext half-hour the fire goes down till the cold creeps in at thecracks, and you begin to shiver. That reminds you to putsome wood in the stove, and set the cooking process in opera-tion again. The New England winter is felt most in those households wherethe stock of sawed wood is allowed to run low, and the women
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I. WINTKR LIFE « -,-, IN NEW ENGLAND folks are obliged to resort to constant appeal to the men to getenough to keep the fires going, or are compelled to saw it them-selves. Take a real country town right through, and there are agood many farmers who do not keep up their wood supply as theyshould, and some of them are short of wood the year around.This state of affairs is called by the more forehanded neighbors shiftlessness. Sometimes there is not only a lack of sawedwood, but the whole woodpile is allowed to get depleted almost tothe last stick. The farmer is then obliged to resort to the woodsfor a new supply ; and the housewife has to burn green wood,which is her especial detestation. She can only make the bestof it ; and that best is to always keep a supply of green sticksunder the stove or in the o\en drying, while they await theirturn to become a part of the fire. The drying wood gives theroom a peculiar and not unpleasant odor. Winter woik is not so arduous or long continued a
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Image taken from page 566 of ‘The New Builder’s Magazine, and Complete Architectural Library, for architects, surveyors, carpenters, etc’
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Title: "The New Builder’s Magazine, and Complete Architectural Library, for architects, surveyors, carpenters, etc"
Author: COOK, Andrew George.
Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 794.i.35.", "British Library HMNTS 07822.dd.19."
Volume: 01
Page: 566
Place of Publishing: London
Date of Publishing: 1819
Publisher: Thomas Kelly
Issuance: monographic
Identifier: 000772054
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Chicken with caramel tomato sauce.
The infamous sauce is actually
Honey
Mustard
Ketchup
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