The Squire's Apartment

The squire was a fine, healthy looking old gentleman with silver hair curling lightly round and open floored countenance. The family meeting was warm and affectionate as the evening was far advanced. They were variously occupied, summit around game of cards, others conversing around a fireplace. At one end of the hall was a group of young folks fully engrossed by a merry game,. A profusion of wooden horses, penny-chumpets, and tattered dolls about the floor showed traces of a troop of little fairy beings who, having frolic through a happy day, have been carried out to slumber the repeatable night.