I visited her soon after.

She showed me her bargains, and, with an air of exultation, spoke of the cost.
"What do you think I paid for this ?" said she, referring to a showy dressing-bureau; and, as she spoke, she took hold of the suspended looking-glass, and moved the upper portion of it forward.

"Only seventeen dollars!" The words had scarcely passed her lips, ere the looking-glass broke away from one of the screws that held it in the standards, and fell, crashing, at our feet! It cost just seven dollars to replace the glass.

But, that was not all--over thirty dollars were paid during the first year for repairs.

And this is only the beginning of troubles.
Cheap furniture is, in most cases, the dearest that housekeepers can buy.