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Title: The old farmer and his almanack : being some observations on life and manners in New England a hundred years ago suggested by reading the earlier numbers of Mr. Robert B. Thomas's Farmer's Almanack, together with extracts curious, instructive and entertaining as well as a variety of miscellaneous matter
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Kittredge, George Lyman, 1860-1941 Thomas, Robert Bailey, 1766-1846
Subjects: Thomas, Robert Bailey, 1766-1846 Almanacs, American -- New England New England -- Social life and customs
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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. Never remove hot ashes in a wooden vessel of any kind, andlook well to your ash-hole. 3. After sweeping a hearth, see that the brush does not retainany particles of fire, before you hang it up in its usual place. 4. Oblige all your servants to go to bed before you, every night,and inspect all your fire-places, before you retire to rest. — Forfear of accidents, let a bucket of water be left in your kitchen everynight. The writer of these directions once saved his house frombeing consumed by fire by this precaution. 5. Do not permit a servant to carry a candle to his bed-room,if he sleeps in an unplastered garret. 6. Cover up your fire carefully every night in ashes. Let theunburnt parts of the billets or chunks of wood, be placed nextthe hearth, but not set upright in the corners, by which means nosparks will be emitted from the wood. Pour a little water uponthe burning ends of the wood which are not completely coveredby the ashes. Place before the fire a fender made of sheet iron.
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X 3> o r>. > r> *— O H « < T) a z rs O ■ k. z. a w rj a E OS. O FIRE ! 147 This contrivance was well kuown in England many years ago, bythe name of Coverfeu. It has lately received (from a top beingadded to it) the name of Hood. 7. Remove papers and linen from near the fire to a remotepart of the room. 8. Shut the doors of all the rooms in which you leave fire atnight. By thus excluding the supply of fresh air, you will preventa flame being kindled, should a coal or spark fall upon the floor,or upon any of the combustible matter in the room. The smokewhich issues from this smothered fire, will find its way into everypart of the house, and by waking the family, may save it fromdestruction. 9. If sickness or any other cause should oblige you to leave acandle burning all night, place it in such a situation as to be outof the way of rats. A house was once destroyed by a rat runningaway with a lighted candle for the sake of the tallow, and convey-ing it into a hole fill

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