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AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



the smallest three by one inches. They are set in lead 

 sashes, and the outer frame is of iron, opening horizontally 

 on hinges. 



There are none but timber houses all about us ; the walls 

 white or yellow, and the timbers black. The roofs are often 

 as steep as forty-five degrees with the horizon, and the gables 

 always front on the street. If the house is large there 

 will be several gables, and each successive story juts out, 



overhanging the face of that below. There is no finical verge- 

 board, or flimsy &quot; drapery&quot; in the gable, but the outermost 

 rafter (a stout beam that you cannot expect to see warped 



