And all the rest of the furniture was in keeping.
One of the chairs was made out of an ancient Spanish altar, and one was a genuwine Louis Cants chair from some palace or other in France that they say Napoleon sat in one time, and one was one of these basket chairs with a little roof over it that they used to have on the seashore, or so they tell me, and one was just a rough wooden bench made out of the timbers of a cabin in Kentucky that, and Joe has papers to prove it, Lincoln used to visit at when he was a young man.
And all over the room—
Say, by golly, there was more pictures and posters and banners and advertising posters than you could shake a stick at, and by golly, and now this was something you'd never expect, in a northern cabin there among the aboriginal pines, by golly if he didn't have a real library, with Dr. Eliot's three-foot shelf of books and the complete works of Zane Grey.
So as I say, we certainly were living off the fat
