Apple-Tree Table, and Other Sketches Story 4 - I and my Chimney Part 1

In which a gentleman dwells in a spacious country house dominated by a grand, pyramidal central chimney that asserts both architectural and social pre-eminence over all else, embodying the quietly sovereign heart of his homestead. He reflects with affectionate detail on the chimney’s storied presence, its majestic bulk, its central place in domestic life, and the gentle domestic disputes it occasions, especially with his spirited wife’s dreams of modernising their venerable abode.