Besides these, there were bound volumes of the
"Repository Tracts," which I had read and re-read; and the
delightfully miscellaneous "Evangelicana," containing an account
of Gilbert Tennent's wonderful trance; also the "History of
the Spanish Inquisition," with some painfully realistic illus-
trations; a German Dictionary, whose outlandish letters and words
I liked to puzzle myself over; and a descriptive History of
Hamburg, full of fine steel engravings--which last two or three
volumes my father had brought with him from the countries to
which be had sailed in his sea-faring days. A complete set of
the "Missionary Herald"," unbound, filled the upper shelves.
Other familiar articles journeyed with us: the brass-headed
shovel and tongs, that it had been my especial task to keep
bright; the two card-tables (which were as unacquainted as
ourselves with ace, face, and trump); the two china mugs,
with their eighteenth-century lady and gentleman figurines
curiosities brought from over the sea, and reverently laid away
by my mother with her choicest relics in the secretary-desk; my
father's miniature, painted in Antwerp, a treasure only shown
occasionally to us children as a holiday treat; and my mother's
easy-chair,--I should have felt as if I had lost her, had that
been left behind.
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