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bit of scantling sawed to pattern at the mill and nailed atop the regu- 

 lar rafter. 



Ventilating hood windows were built near each gable apex, one 

 equipped with electric fan, used with chemical batteries in the absence 

 of power. Ample air space w r as also left above the rooms. 



Second story bedrooms are but little additional expense, as no 

 larger roof nor foundation is needed, only a trifle higher side walls, 

 more partitions, extra floor beams, flooring, stairs and a few doors and 

 windows three to five hundred dollars or even less would pay for 

 this added convenience of a full second story in a bungalow of mod- 

 erate size. 



Death Knell of the Expensive One Story Bungalow. 



Well-constructed two-story bungalows are far more habitable 

 even if only week-end propositions. The time has arrived when an 

 interior with less of the camping atmosphere is demanded. The 

 roomy living room can still be preserved, also the broad stair and 

 big fireplace, but there will be added the essential vestibule draught- 

 stopper or entrance hall, so that domestic routine will not be inter- 

 fered v/ith at unseemly hours; bedrooms will be larger, and the 

 bungalow plastered, papered, decorated, heated and plumbed in 

 fact, suitable for use every day in the year if required. The death 

 knell of the expensive one-story bungalow in our climate has sounded. 



We built bungalows of varied sorts. One had only a single 

 room, in size twenty-five by forty feet, with walls battered outward 

 two -feet at base, as in windmill construction; the resultant extreme 

 quaintness if not extreme beauty. 



Portable House. 



A portable house? Yes, and for nine years it had but two 

 resting places, first on the hill, and then on the cliff bordering the 

 Sound. The "tooth of time" aided by one or two young tornadoes 

 made it a trifle too cool for comfort. When we bought our portable 

 house it was an infant industry, but is today a grown-up, matured 

 and feasible summer cabin proposition. 



CLIFF EYRIE or the LOG CABIX, as it was more frequently 

 called, was built directly on the Sound, and exists exactly as shown, 

 both cliffed and eyried, heavily studded, beamed and diagonally 

 boarded, windows made to fit the studs, and weighted with springs 

 inset in studding instead of the regulation weights. Back in the 

 woods I found a saw mill, and rough bark slabs mitred at the corners 

 gave a realistic log cabin exterior. But a log interior encourages 

 vermin and dirt. It was necessary to peel off the bark and shellac 

 a cedar staircase rail, a hint given when the dust made by the wood 

 borer seriously irritated eyes and throat. We once found him 

 doing dire damage to an expensive quarter-sawed oak wainscoting, 

 the filler having failed to ferret out his hiding places. 



