OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



ment below stairs which had a southern as- 

 pect. I give his drawing of it, and it is a good 

 type of a great many "small and convenient 

 houses" scattered through our country towns. 



"Of course, this will never do," wrote 

 Lackland to me, "and yet the skin of the 

 house (as our carpenter calls it) is very good, 

 and I wish to make the needed changes, so far 

 as possible, without disturbing the exterior 

 outline of the main building. But how shall 

 I rid myself of that preposterously narrow 

 entrance-way in which I can almost fancy 

 Mrs. L., (who is something large) getting 

 wedged on some warm day? How shall I 

 throw sunlight into that dismal parlor? You 

 will perceive that along the whole south front 

 there is not a single available window below. 

 Now, half the charm of a country place, to 

 my notion, lies in the possession of some 



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