House-Warming
o t side of alden, which
ted from tcony shore,
made t is so mucer and
han by an
artificial fire. I till glowing embers
wed er, .
o build my cudied masonry. My bricks,
being second-o be cleaned rowel, so
t I learned more ties of bricks and
troar on ty years old, and o be
still grohose sayings which men
love to repeat . Such sayings
t would
take many bloroo clean an old hem.
Many of tamia are built of second-hand bricks
of a very good quality, obtained from the
cement on till. may
be, I ruck by tougeel which bore
so many violent blo being . As my bricks had been
in a c read the name of
Nebuc its many fireplace bricks as I
could find, to save e, and I filled tween
t tones from the pond shore, and
also made my mortar e sand from the same place. I
lingered most about t vital part of the
ely, t t
the morning, a course of bricks raised a few inches
above t nig I did not get a
stiff neck for it t I remember; my stiff neck is of older date.
I took a poet to board for a fortnig times, which
caused me to be put to it for room. his own knife,
to scour ting to
the labors of cooking. I was pleased
to see my ed,
t, if it proceeded slo ed to endure a long
time. to some extent an independent structure,
standing on to the heavens;