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b 



the winter, they will perhaps discover, that the window on 



the staircase to the south admits more cheerfulness th 



an 



other in th 



ouse : an 



th 



any 



is may perhaps suggest the idea of 

 opening windows to the south in the great room, although they 

 may only look into a conservatory or green-house, which may be 

 also a grapery; but the difference between a public-house 



and 



th 



private one operates in so many ways, that I must proceed far- 

 sr. The public-house required broad glades and free access in 



far 



all directions; large stables, stable-yards, and outbuildings 

 more extensive than are necessary to a private house, and conse- 

 quently all these may be reduced, and the access to them simpli- 

 fied. There is yet another consideration which makes this place 

 different from all others: it is not only a spot of four or five acres 

 enclosed from a forest, but it is surrounded by a rabbit-warren, 

 which the late occupier made an object of profit, though with 

 the utmost difficulty could he preserve from these rapacious 





animals the vegetables in the garden, intended for his scarcely 

 less rapacious guests; and thus the whole is subdivided by un- 



ghtly palings, and the place altogeth 



with dirty pond 



and numerous puddl 



traps for vermin in every part of the premises 



of slovenli- 

 -pools, and 



face 



whil 



e 



th 



sur 



presents nothing but yawnino- ch 



barren mound 



of clay without a blade of grass, which is wholly destroyed by 



1 he first thing therefore to be done is, to secure the 



the rabbit 



whole by such a fen 



shall 



at th 



e same time 



th 



deer of the forest, who leap 



si, feet above ground, and the rabbit;, wholurrow underly 



over any thinar that is less than 



