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'' I don't know what xti/lc you call it." answered his companion, 

 dabbing great brushfnls of stain on the narrow pine timbers; ''but 

 I say this yere room is puttin' the outside of the house on the inside. 

 It isn't my taste, but we're told to do it." 



Here was the secret discovered, the key to the whole situation. 

 We did want to bring the outside inside, we wanted the house to be 

 part and parcel of the woods, to sink into the hillside and take just 

 its proper proportion in the landscape. 



A shelter in the present state of civilixatiou is a necessity, al- 

 though I believe some enthusiast has prophesied that fifty years 

 hence no civili/.ed being will think of sleeping indoors. Little we 

 thought when building the upstairs porch that lies hidden behind 

 the spreading leaves of the kud/.u vine, that an outdoor camp would 

 be arranged with cots and rubber covers, and mosquito nets im- 

 provised with the assistance of bamboo poles from the garden stock. 

 Little we knew then of the splendor of the sky in August, when 

 shooting stars trail leisurely across the heavens and the Milky 

 Way is a glory of shimmering light, ("an any one tell the beauty 

 of the summer dawn or explain the rapture of the wood-thrush's 



song? 



In the second story of the house a long gallery, continuing the 

 plaster-and-timber finish of the stairwav, gives access to the bed- 

 rooms, large, clean, and airy, and. like those at the Xorth Pole Hotel, 

 all facing south ! And every room has a big clothes-closet and a bath. 



It is a pretty sight to watch the evening procession, each guest 



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