And here is the great form on which they cut them up into manageable pieces.

It would do you good, you Young America, to see that form, and the cross-gashes of the meat-axe in it.

It is the half of a gigantic English oak, which was growing in Julius Caesar's time, sawed through lengthwise, making a top surface several feet wide, black and smooth as ebony.
Some of the bark still clings to the under side.

The dancing hall is the great room of the building.

All that the taste, art and wealth of that day could do, was done to make it a splendid apartment, and it would pass muster still as a comfortable and respectable salon.