I've been examining the sofa since, and find that it is a very bad piece of work.

Just look here." And she drew me over to the place where my eighteen dollar sofa stood, and pointed out sundry large seams that had gaped open, loose spots in the veneering, and rickety joints.

I saw now, what I had not before seen, that the whole article was of exceedingly common material and common workmanship.
"A miserable piece of furniture!" said I.
"It is, indeed," returned Mrs.Jones.

"To buy an article like this, is little better than throwing money into the street." For a month the disfigured sofa remained in the parlor, a perfect eye-sore, when another piece of the veneering sloughed off, and one of the feet became loose.

It was then sent to a cabinet maker for repair; and cost for removing and mending just five dollars.
Not long after this, the bureau had to take a like journey, for it had, strangely enough, fallen into sudden dilapidation.