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need never be renewed, so far as actual effect 

 goes. The woodwork within reach, the doors, 

 the floor, the stairs, the window boxes and 

 seats are all oiled pine, which may be kept in 

 admirable order at the expense of about ten 

 cents a month for kerosene and a little labor in 

 applying it. I have not yet tried a winter in 

 this house, but from the effect of cold storms 

 in the late autumn, I imagine that it may be 

 necessary to establish a large self-feeding stove 

 in one corner of the big room, and perhaps 

 carry the pipes across the room to the chimney. 

 For the heating of the upper part of the house, 

 I shall try, should we ever need to live in it 

 after Christmas, a plan which has worked ad- 

 mirably elsewhere namely, to cut square 

 register holes in the flooring of the upper 

 rooms and trust to the heat from the living- 

 room rising sufficiently to keep water from 

 freezing in the bedroom pitchers. Two of our 

 upstairs rooms are provided with open hearths, 

 and should it become necessary to heat any 

 one of the other bedrooms, a small stove, with 

 the pipe running through the hall to the chim- 

 ney, will be wholly sufficient. We are certain 



