That House I Bought

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Henry Edward Warner. That House I Bought

DEDICATION

FIRST PERIOD

SECOND PERIOD

THIRD PERIOD

FOURTH PERIOD

FIFTH PERIOD

SIXTH PERIOD

SEVENTH PERIOD

EIGHTH PERIOD

NINTH PERIOD

TENTH PERIOD

ELEVENTH PERIOD

THE EVEN DOZENTH, WHICH IS A POSTSCRIPT

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Thirty-three years ago I formed a box of blocks into a castle and then kicked it down in disgust because I didn't like the chimney. Mother said I displayed temper.

Birds build nests in tree-tops with horse-hair and straw, and odd bits of stuff; but my wife and I aren't birds. Far from it. And we've been going along for fifteen years without a regular nest. All that time I've been building a house with blocks and kicking it down.

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Never praise your wife too much, or she will dominate you.

But as this is to be a truthful chronicle, be it said that my wife is the most wonderful woman in the world. How on earth she ever got the chairs and tables, the china closet and dishes, the cooking hardware and beds and mattresses and my desk and revolving bookcase, and Heaven knows what, all in place in one day is beyond me.

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