Herman Melville Quotes

In His Land, Owing To The Absence Of Settees And Sofas Of All Sorts, The King, Chiefs, And Great People Generally, Were In The Custom Of Fattening Some Of The Lower Orders For Ottomans; And To Furnish A House Comfortably In That Respect, You Had Only To Buy Up Eight Or Ten Lazy Fellows, And Lay Them Round In The Piers And Alcoves. Besides, It Was Very Convenient On An Excursion; Much Better Than Those Garden-chairs Which Are Convertible Into Walking-sticks; Upon Occasion, A Chief Calling His Attendant, And Desiring Him To Make A Settee Of Himself Under A Spreading Tree, Perhaps In Some Damp Marshy Place.

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