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carved tokens of a century since. But the 

 sun of June shines in, and does not linger at 

 the pane ; the twitter of birds and the hum 

 of insects, the laughter and shouts of children 

 come through the open window with the 

 rustle of green leaves. Bright, happy life 

 of sunny hours dwells round about amid 

 roses and carnations. 



Another iron-studded door opens on the 

 great kitchen, where the ancient settles are 

 still in use. Brands — logs four or five feet 

 long — can be thrown on the wide hearth. 

 Upon one side of the hearth is a long vertical 

 steel handle, brightly polished, much like the 

 valve-handle of an engine. By this handle 

 the smoke jack is regulated ; at a touch a small 

 endless chain depending from the chimney 

 causes the horizontal spit to slowly revolve. 

 Looking up the chimney the smoke-jack 

 fdls the cavity, like a horizontal wind-mill 

 perpetually revolving, driven by the heated 

 air ascending. In how few, even of the 

 most ancient houses, are smoke-jacks still 



