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men of large fortune ; but, for small incomes, I be- 

 lieve invention has either gone retrograde, or at 

 least stood still. 



Circumstances for convenience, which should be 

 attended to, in planning a house to be inhabited by 

 a family whose income is small. 



It is not necessary to define what the income 

 may be, but only to mark it, by the points of the 

 mistress being her own housekeeper, and the mas- 

 ter keeping the keys of the wine-cellar ; and that a 

 general system of economy pervades the manage- 

 ment, the proprietor farming his own estate, whe- 

 ther 40O or 1OOO acres. 



1st, The kitchen should not be a thoroughfare, 

 nor any home-door open directly into it. The 

 scullery as near it as possible, but without opening 

 into it. 



2d, The mistress's store-room should have a 

 square opening into the kitchen (with a sliding 

 door), on a level with the dresser or broad shelf 

 which, surrounds the whole store-room, through 

 which she may give out whatever is wanted, with- 

 out the necessity of her or her maids, &c. passing 

 by a round-about way. 



3d, The common keeping-room to open on one 

 Mde into the store- room, and on the other, into a 

 passage that leads directly to the wine and ale 

 cellar, which should be near, in order that the eye 

 may attend to what the hand need not perform. 



4th, The window of the keeping-room to look 

 full upon the grand avenue to the yards, barns, 



B 4 cattle, 



