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home. The father overloaded the farm with 

 buildings, his son is struggling to keep them in 

 repair, and the wife labors to keep unused rooms 

 presentable. These buildings might well serve 

 for a section of land and a family of twenty. 



Fig. 10. Scattered farm buildings. 



Another house not far from this one was 

 built nearly a century ago (Fig, 11). If the 

 upper story w^as a full instead of a half- story, 

 it would fulfil all the demands of a house, ex- 

 cept possibly beauty. It stands on a rather 

 steep front slope, which stops abruptly on the 

 shore of one of our beautiful inland lakes (Fig. 



