Chapter 13

"An oaken, broken, elbow-chair;

A caudle-cup without an ear;

A battered, shattered ash bedstead;

A box of deal without a lid;

A pair of tongs, but out of joint;

A back-sword poker, without point;

A dish which might good meat afford once;

An Ovid, and an old

Concordance."

Thomas Sheridan, "A True and Faithful Inventory of