FAMILIAR OR INTIMATE?
"What makes the difference between those two carriages ?" I asked a wagon builder, while examining two light vehicles of the same general build and design.

One cost twice as much as the other, and looked as if it were worth four times as much.
"Some of it is in the material, but more in the finishing," was the response.

"This is of pretty fair wood, but simply planed and painted, while this"-- pointing to the more costly equipage--"is as hard as a rock, and has been rubbed smooth, then polished until the surface is as fine as silk.

Then it is flowed all over with the best varnish, left to dry ten days, and over-flowed again.

That makes all the difference in the look of wagons.