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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1090, Page 421

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  1. Furniture of Former Days

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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. residential buildings (~2,723)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Ann Gibbons
    Gender
    Female

  2. Furniture of Former Days

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    The poor people had a large flat basket made of rods grown at home. They boiled the potatoes in a pot and then threw them out in the basket they them set the basket on top of the pot the whole family sat around on low stools for there were no chairs and in this way they ate their dinner or supper as the case might be
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