Excerpt from The Fiddler's House: A Play in Three Acts Scene: The interior of a farmer's cottage the kitchen. The entrance is at the back right. To the left is the fire-place, an open hearth, with a fire of turf. There is a room door to the right, a pace below the entrance and another room door below the fire-place. Between the room door and the entrance there is a row of wooden pegs, on which men's coats hang. Below this door is a dresser containing pretty delph. There is a small window at back, a settle bed folded into a high bench a small mirror hangs right of the window. A backed chair and some stools are about the hearth. A table to the fight with cloth and tea things on it. The cottage looks pretty and comfortable. It is towards the close of an Autumn day. 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.