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w.-c, and cloak-room, morning- room, drawing-room, dining-room, 

 servants' hall, pantry, backstairs, kitchen, scullery, with the usual 

 offices and some cellarage in basement. The chamber- floor would 

 contain about seven or eight bedrooms and dressing-rooms, bath-room, 

 water-closet, and housemaid's closet, and three or four servants' 

 bedrooms. 



The author considers a house of this description, including stabling 

 for four or five horses, might be built for ;;^3300 or thereabouts. 

 There would appear to be a want of houses of this kind in good hunt- 

 ing localities. Noblemen and large landed proprietors, whether or not 

 Masters of Hounds, would find this a fair investment, as such a house 

 would command a good tenant on lease at a remunerative rent. Spare 

 cash mieht be invested to much less advantacre. 



