There were two bedroom windows in
front, on the upper storey, and each one had flowers outside. The
flower-pots were prevented from falling off the ledge by a lattice-
work wrought in the centre into a little gate--an actual little gate.
What purpose it was intended to answer is a mystery; but being there
the owner of the flower-pots unfastened it every morning when the
sill was dusted, and removed them through it, although lifting them
would have been a much simpler operation. There were flowers in the
sitting-room downstairs too; but they were inside, as the window was
flush with the pavement. This sitting-room was never used except on
Sundays. It was about nine feet square, and it had in it a cupboard
on either side of the fireplace, a black horse-hair sofa alongside
the wall on the right-hand side of the door, red curtains, a black
horse-hair arm-chair, three other chairs to match, a little round
table, two large shells, a framed sampler on the wall representing
first the letters of the alphabet, then the figures 1, 2, 3, &c.,
and, finally, a very blue Jesus talking to a very red woman of
Samaria on a very yellow well--underneath, the inscription and date,
"Margaret Curtin, 10th March 1785.
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