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WARDROBES AND CUPBOARDS.
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place for money and valuables. When the two boxes,
for they are really little else, are placed side by
side they measure only three feet one inch long,
three feet four high, and one foot five deep. They
Fig. 9.
hardly appear, from the prominence of the sliding
handles, intended to be packed in outer wooden
cases as portable chests of drawers usually are;
but it must be remembered that in Japan they