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with its ceiling and two sides offering shelter from the haphazard little im leniencies a dash of ram, a 

 \vhirloi wind, a rush of chilly air to which we are ever subject in this country. At other moments and for 

 other meals it is shelter from sun that this building affords. It is excellent for both lunch and tea in hot 

 weather, while at breakfast-time the table may be either put forward toward- the eastern aperture-- to ,t;e! 

 the early sun in spring and autumn mornings or kept well back towards the dining-room m the dojj-dav~. 

 The offices and service lobbv lie to the north side of the dining-room, so that meals may be carried out 

 without walking across the whole length or breadth of the dining-room, and thus nvatini; a sense of dis 

 comfort should it be used for reading or writing. Certainly, it is a well-thought-out scheme, and if it at all 

 tits in with the conditions and site where the lover of the open-air can construct a dining-place, it would 

 certainly be adapted for use (luring a long part of the year, and even, occasionally, at -canons when 

 resort to the fireside is more normal. For there are quite sunny days in November and March when 

 it is really delicious to begin the day by drinking in fresh air at breakfast-time if only a little care and 

 forethought has been exercised to provide the rightly-constituted spot. II AVKAY Tiri ixc; 



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