Reclaiming the Old House: Its Modern Problems and Their Solution as Governed by the Methods of Its Builders (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Now let us take up the subject at the beginning, in a mat ter-of-fact way, and proceed through the natural channels to a definite conclusion: First catch your fish. One knows in a general way from the history just about what he may expect to find in various parts of the country. Naturally one does not look for relics of 1650 in a country that was a howling wilder ness at that time; this is a thing to be remembered. We are, unfortunately, slaves to a certain mistaken notion that every thing that may be called old dates from The Landing of the Pilgrims and Sixteen Twenty. Of all our helpless pioneers, they have been saddled with most of the impossibles. There is enough of household furniture and utensils purported to have come over in the M ayflower, to have sunk several modern navies; while they who have pinned their ancestry to this little band would make it imperative to have adopted all the foundlings in England in bearing out such facts. Having been rationalized in the knowledge of conditions, one may cease to expect impossi bilities and accept things as they are. Really they are sufiicient in themselves.

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