A walnut high chest of a somewhat later type is shown in Illustration 18, belonging to Mrs. Rufus Woodward of Worcester. It is of walnut veneered upon pine, and the shells upon the upper and lower middle drawers are gilded, for they are, of course, carved from the pine beneath the veneer. The frame has the separated double moulding around the drawers. A row of light inlaying extends around each drawer, and in the three long drawers of the upper part the inlaying simulates the division into two drawers, which is carried out in the top drawers of both the upper and lower parts. The large handles and the fluted columns at the sides would indicate that this chest was made about 1760-1770. Illustration 19 shows a “high-boy” and “low-boy” of walnut, owned by the writer. The drawers, it will be seen, lap over the frame. The “high-boy” is original in every respect except the ring handles, which are new, upon the drawers carved with the rising sun or fan design. It was found in the attic of an old house, with the top separate from the lower part and every drawer out upon the floor, filled with seeds, rags, and—kittens, who, terrified by the invasion of the antique hunter, scurried from their resting-places, to the number of nine or ten, reminding one of Lowell’s lines in the “Biglow Papers”:— “But the old chest won’t sarve her gran’son’s wife, (For ’thout new furnitoor what good in life?) An’ so old claw foot, from the precinks dread O’ the spare chamber, slinks into the shed, Where, dim with dust, it fust and last subsides To holdin’ seeds an’ fifty other things besides.” [Illustration: Illus. 19.—“Low-boy” and “High-boy” of Walnut, about 1740.] But carefully wrapped up and tucked away in one of the small drawers were the torches for the upper and the acorn-shaped drops for the lower part. These drops were used as long as the curves followed those of the lower part of six-legged chests, but were omitted when more graceful curves and lines were used, as the design of high chests gradually differed from the early types. [Illustration: Illus. 20.—Walnut Double Chest, about 1760.] The “low-boy,” or dressing-table, was made to accompany every style of high chest. The low-boy in Illustration 19 shows the dressing-table which was probably used in the room with the bandy-legged high-boy, flat-topped or with the broken arch cornice. It is lower than the under part of the high-boy, which is, however, frequently supplied with a board top and sold as a low-boy, but which can be easily detected from its height and general appearance. The measurements of this high-boy and low-boy are HIGH-BOY, lower part LOW-BOY 3 feet high 2 feet 4 inches high 3 feet 1½ inches long 2 feet 6 inches long 21 inches deep 18 inches deep The high-boy measures seven feet from the floor to the top of the cornice.