"I say there!  Easy, Grandma!" exclaimed the chair as the fat old lady sat down particularly hard after about her third look in the oven.  "Be a bit careful, if you please!  You'll break one of my legs, or a rocker, if you sit down so heavily!  Then I'll be put away up in the attic with the other old furniture, and that will be the end of me!  Don't sit on me so hard!"