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83 at pleasure. Where, however, there is no particular inducement to use cane or bamboo, then it would be better to have made by the village carpenter a settee—or settle, which is the real word—something like this. The form is, at all events correct; and in a private sitting-room, furnished and fitted to match, the effect would be a thousand times better than the modern couches, which are so often padded and stuffed into deformity.

Nothing can be simpler than the lines of the design, as is seen in this drawing (Fig 25), without

the cushions; and it would come within the scope of the most modest upholstering genius. In one's own little den—which, by the way, I should never