THE FARM-HOUSE. 



I SHALL begin by presenting to my readers 

 a view of a farm-house, and as I happen to have 

 only an engraving of an English one, I shall 

 present them with that. See the frontispiece. 



The name of the house is Peak Hall, or as 

 the country people in England usually call it, 

 "Gable-sides" It was formerly the residence 

 of a wealthy lord in Essex, in which county it 

 is situated. It was not originally designed for 

 a farm-house. Yet it is now the delightful resi- 

 dence of a thrifty English farmer, who has 

 some four hundred acres of excellent land about 

 him, and who cultivates it in the neat and 



