HOUSE, PLANS, AND SPECIFICATIONS. 37 



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CHAPTEE II. 



A HOUSE, PLANS, AND SPECIFICATIONS. 



F there is any one thing on which I do pride my 

 self more than another, it is my ability to plan 

 and lay out a house. No matter how remarkable the 

 shape of the lot may be, I can always devise an ad 

 mirable arrangement ; and if architecture, not law, 

 had been my fate, the public would have been sur 

 prised at my productions. To be sure, chimneys 

 have an inconvenient habit of coming up through 

 windows, and windows of getting in the way of par 

 titions, or locating themselves in odd and unsymmet- 

 rical places; sometimes the only passage from the 

 kitchen to the front door, after my plan is com 

 pleted, will turn out to be through every room on 

 the first floor, and occasionally the stairs will be 

 omitted; but these are matters for the practical 

 builder to correct the great point is to mark out 

 the general scheme scientifically. 



Of course, therefore, the first thing to do toward 



