The Corner Cupboard, Or, Facts for Everybody: Embracing Facts About I Things Not Generally Known; II Things That Ought to Be Known; III Things Worth Knowing (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Excerpt from The Corner Cupboard, Or, Facts for Everybody: Embracing Facts About I Things Not Generally Known; II Things That Ought to Be Known; III Things Worth Knowing

WE present the Reader with the Freedom of the Cupboard, one of the greatest privileges that can be conferred upon civilized and domesticated beings.

The corner cupboard has, for many centuries, been an object cherished in the homes Of the people. It has been the receptacle of the most treasured and time-honored objects. Old people have kept the keys of the Corner Cup board with a degree of pride, and have felt themselves to be the conservators of the domestic weal by holding sacred the contents of the family treasury. When the Corner Cupboard has been opened, children have gathered round their grandmammas, and have stood on tip-toe to catch a glimpse of what the Corner Cupboard contained.

So may it be with our Literary corner cupboard. Every time it is Opened we trust that some new object of value and interest Will be found; and that the family circle, from the Silver-haired grandmamma, to the auburn haired boy, will gather in a group and rejoice whenever the corner cupboard is unlocked.

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