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house at one time or another. Such sil- 

 houettes, if cut out of light-brown paper, show 

 the profile outlined upon a black background 

 with extraordinary vividness; the process of 

 making them is so simple that almost every 

 one has tried it. With a candle and a sheet of 

 paper the shadow of a head is thrown upon 

 any paper screen, and a pencil-mark will indi- 

 cate where the cutting is to be done. Under- 

 neath each head is the date in big black letters, 

 painted in with a brush. It is impossible to 

 feel lonely with such shades, literally, around 

 one. 



At one side of the big room the staircase 

 rises up and passes in a little gallery, almost 

 over the fireplace. Underneath the stairs and 

 alongside of the big chimney-place is a door 

 opening into a very small dining-room. Right 

 back of the main fireplace is the kitchen. The 

 whole house measures thirty feet in width by 

 fifty feet in length, including the piazza.. The 

 main room is thirty feet wide by thirty-five 

 feet in length, and has windows opening on 

 the piazza to the east, on the sea, or the bay, 

 to the south, and on the moors to the north. 



