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 FURNITURE FOR COTTAGE DWELLINGS. 307 599 the preceding Design, forming a long narrow table, will, perhaps, be found more com- modious. Fig. 601 shows a table with a semicircular top, double-hinged at the ends, and supported by tliree legs and a triangular frame, as shown in fig. 600. The two 600 601 legs, h h, fold out, to support one half of the top, when it is opened and turned over on them. As this table, when shut up, will stand against a wall, it will take up but little room, and is, therefore, very suitable to a cottage kitchen. A common kitchen dining- table, square, round, or oval, with a fixed centre, and two hinged folding-down leaves, supported, when up, by hinged folding feet, is so familiar a form, that we have not thought it necessary to give a Design for it. Its construction will be easily understood from that of the fixed flap table with folding legs, § 613, fig. 550. 630. Parlour Tables. Where the parlour is square, a round table will be found the handsomest and most appropriate. Fig. 602, designed by Mr. Mallet, shows a round fable with a wooden top, supported on a C£ist-iron pillar, with iron castors. Each of these castorscon- sists of a ball one inch in diameter, having free motion in every direction within a wrought-iron cup, which is pressed into its form in a fly press, from a piece of flat iron ; and, the ball being put into it, it is then closed suflSciently at the mouth, to prevent the ball from falling out. The con- struction of this kind of castor (which Mr. Mallet informs us he invented some time ago, and which has been since used extensively) will be better understood by fig. 603, in which a is the ball of a single castor ; b b are the sides of the wrought- iron cup ; and c is the leg of the table, bed, sofa, or other piece of furniture, to which the