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	“Food was kept in the house in a sort o~ box or chest, built in the‘

wall sarnetllfl8. Mostly it was kept ~ on the taue.

	“In cooking they bad a round oven made like a pot only the bottcm

would be flat. It had an iron top. The ofen was a bought oven. it was shaped like a barrel. The top lifted ~ip. Coal was placed tmder the ove~~ and a little on top. .

Tables and chairs

“Tables were just boards nailed together. Nothing but piai~ke nailed

~	together. I don‘ t remember nothing but homemade bénchea tor chaire, They sometimes made platted or split.bottom chairs out of white oak. Strip. of oak were seven feet lông. ~ They put them in water so they would bend easily and Wove them while they were flexible and fresh. The whole chair bottc~ was made out or one strip just like in Cating. Those chairs were stouter than the chairs they make now.“ .


(To be continued)