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THE DOMESTIC HEARTH
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contain the arms of the family or the portraits of ancestors.

No portion of an old manor-house was so

THE CHIMNEY-TOP, ANCIENT AND MODERN

decorated and enriched as this; and the hall fireplace received pre-eminent attention.

Happily we have in England numerous and splendid examples; but a vast number were sacrificed at the end of last century and the

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