CHAPTER XI 



THE BUILDING LINE 



BEFORE leaving Four Oaks that day I had a 

 long conversation with Nelson, the carpenter. I 

 had taken his measure, by inquiry and observa- 

 tion, and was willing to put work into his hands 

 as fast as he could attend to it. The first thing 

 was to put him in possession of my plan of a 

 building line. 



Two hundred feet south of the north line of 

 the home lot a street or lane was to run due west 

 from the gate on the main road. This was to be 

 the teaming or business entrance to the farm. 

 Commencing three hundred feet from the east 

 end of this drive, the structures were to be as 

 follows : On the south side, first a cold-storage 

 house, then the farm-house, the cottage, the well, 

 and finally the carriage barn for the big house. 

 On the north side of the line, opposite the ice- 

 house, the dairy-house ; then a square with a small 

 power-house for its centre, a woodhouse, a horse 

 barn for the farm horses, a granary and a forage 

 barn for its four corners. Beyond this square to 

 the west was the fruit-house and the tool-house 

 the latter large enough to house all the farm 



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