Excerpt from Doings of the Bodley Family: In Town and Country The flies had been too sleepy, but the children had watched out of the front of the house while the sun was journeying, and they had seen what was going on Opposite. The windows and doors of num ber 101 were wide Open, and three long carts stood in the street. They were furniture-wagons, and men were busy stowing in them the contents of the house. The sidewalk was lively with pieces of furniture that had never come so near each other before. There stood the pompous etagere from the parlor, swelling out grandly; and yet a towel-horse, standing on two legs only, was rearing up against it. The Oil portrait Of the great-grandfather, with white neck-handkerchief and his head set on one side like a robin's, was sitting in a lowly rocking-chair hauled up from the kitchen, which gave a thumping sound in its lower part whenever rocked in. The sofa stood against the wall, stretching its arms out; and it was very improper, but a hat-tub had sat down in it. Things were put on the cart, not in order of merit, but as they happened to fit in best though to be sure the parlor furniture was wrapped up in pieces Of Old carpet, - but how different that was from having one's feet on the best carpet! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.