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chief room. There is scarcely a private house 

 within miles which boasts a room of that size, 

 and with all its roughness, size produces a good 

 effect. In its present shape, with the five small 

 bedrooms upstairs finished in the very cheap- 

 est manner, the total cost of the house has been 

 under $1600. Counting the cost of some of the 

 ornamental woodwork, which I have done my- 

 self as a matter of personal pride, perhaps the 

 whole building might cost to duplicate $1700. 

 Yet the kitchen has all the conveniences of a 

 city house. The range gives hot and cold 

 water; there are stationary tubs; and a small 

 wind-mill on the little tool-house near the 

 orchard pumps all the water to the tank that 

 the house can use. As we are near the sea, it 

 is rare that the breeze is not sufficient to turn 

 the mill, which cost less than $200 all com- 

 plete. The well is a driven one, and gives an 

 inexhaustible supply of good water. 



It is hard to give in words anything like an 

 adequate picture of this home. Take a hot 

 night in summer, with the breeze blowing right 

 across our big room, and there is no more de- 

 lightful place for music and talk. Until long 



