MR. URBAN AND A COUNTRY HOUSE 



though with a nice regard to joints and ef- 

 fective panelHng, and after this, building in 

 with coarse rubble, to be rough-cast on com- 

 pletion, leaving the timbers exposed. This is 

 the old Saxon country house, of which many 

 examples are to be found in the cathedral 

 cities of England, and of which the Shake- 

 speare house is a notable but very humble type. 



Instances of this mode of construction are 

 not common in this country — scarcely known 

 indeed at the North; but quaint specimens are 

 to be seen in Louisiana and in Florida. By 

 the favor of a friend, I introduce a little sketch 

 of a very modest building of this sort in the 

 neighborhood of New Orleans. 



I am sure that something larger might be 



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