Ebook The Comforts of Home

And more had gone over its chimney, down which, as we were to discover later, a hundred ?ies and more would come when the open fires had warmed it, — and within doors it would have charmed any amateur Of the Colonial by the antiquity Of its furnishings. Temporarily it belonged to me, my executors, administrators, and assigns. But there were limits to our possession. None of us might 'permit any hole to be drilled or made in the stone or brick work Of said building'; no 'sign or pla card' might we place upon it; we might not 'over-load damage, or deface' it; nor might we carry on any unlawful.