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much to commend it. Besides, comfort, which it is 

 hopeless to look for in the manufactured article, may be 

 aimed at in the home-made structure, and a degree of 

 strength and solidity attained which will make the latter 

 outlast the former by many years. Let us hope that 

 before long we shall have seen the last of the varnished 

 monstrosities, which have come to be associated with the 

 work of the jerry-builder and others of his class. 



