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They were getting some of their things out to send into the country, / and Forsyth had left his work to help his wife look them over and / decide which to take and which to leave. The things were mostly trunks / that they had stored the fall before; there were some tables and / Colonial bureaus inherited from his mother, and some mirrors and / decorative odds and ends, which they would not want in the furnished / house they had taken for the summer. There were some canvases which / Forsyth said he would paint out and use for other subjects, but which, / when he came to look at again, he found really not so bad. The rest, / literally, was nothing but trunks; there were, of course, two or three / boxes of books. When they had been packed closely into the five-dollar / room, with the tables and bureaus and mirrors and canvases and / decorative odds and ends put carefully on top, the Forsyths thought / the effect very neat, and laughed at themselves for being proud of it.