But the chairs dinna match.

There was a very bonny-painted cloth alang the chimley--what they call a mantelpiece border, I warrant." "Sal, I've often wondered what they was." "Well, I assure ye they winna be ill to mak, for the border was juist nailed upon a board laid on the chimley.

There's naething to hender's makin' ane for the room." "Ay, we could sew something on the border instead o' paintin't.

The room lookit weel, ye say ?" "Yes, but it was economically furnished.

There was nae carpet below the wax-cloth; na, there was nane below the bed either." "Was't a grand bed ?" "It had a fell lot o' brass aboot it, but there was juist one pair o' blankets.