and blue to the north, and on this hill the red clover pasture and the 

 plum-trees and some gnarly oaks, then down hill through a fringe of 

 woodland on the steep hill incline and then the cornfield and the 

 orchard, and after that the rich soil through which the ravine digs its 

 deep trench and grows its many pastorals and on the north-east corner 

 some noble walnuts which shake their odorous fruits on the ground after 

 the first keen frost bites into them, and under their shadows my house 

 of two rooms is built. In the front room is the organ and in the back 

 room the coffee pot ; though I have scarcely stated the case with the 

 accuracy such as marks my usual observations. Accurately stated there 

 is no back room. Both are front rooms. I think highly of this architec- 

 tural plan. The family lives in the front of the house, which gives an 

 air of gentility and breeding not secured in the old architecture. The 

 house is built lengthwise with the road, which plan does not necessitate 

 the housewife leaving the meat to burn or the coffee to boil over while 

 she runs to the front room to see who is going past in a buggy and what 

 beau that Smith girl (the one who was sixteen ten years ago) has now 

 but she can keep on with the cooking and look out at the front window 

 at the same time. It saves shoes and time and nerve force and 

 muscles, and biscuits from burning. A grasping man would have 

 patented this revolutionary idea in architecture and vended it as they 

 do proprietary medicines. Not so I. In this open way I give my dis- 

 covery to the world as physicians their remedies. The design oi the 

 house is as follows : 



This is the public road 



These are the 

 walnut-trees 



