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CHAPTER VI
IN THE MEAL CHEST
We have an awfully cosy cellar, you must
know. Of course the whole house is old and
rather tumbledown, so the cellar is nothing
very fine; but it is awfully cosy and exactly
right for playing in, in bad weather. I don’t
know a cellar in the whole town that is cosier;
and I am fairly well acquainted with all of
them, you may be sure.
Our cellar isn’t underground. It is a high
basement and in it is a big brewery and laun-
dry, a big servant’s room, and a big wine cellar
where there is never anv wine; on the other
side of the basement is the storeroom for food
and the potato cellar. The walls are brown
and dark just from age; and the floor rocks so
that I often wonder that the big casks and
barreis, and fat Christine and Maren the wash-
erwomen, who are forever washing there, do
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