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done. Underneath each head is the date in 

 big black letters, painted in with a brush. It is 

 impossible to feel lonely with such shades, liter- 

 ally, around one. 



At one side of the big room the staircase 

 rises up and passes in a little gallery, almost 

 over the fireplace. Underneath the stairs and 

 alongside of the big chimney-place is a door 

 opening into a very small dining-room. Right 

 back of the main fireplace is the kitchen. The 

 whole house measures thirty feet in width by 

 fifty feet in length, including the piazza. The 

 main room is thirty feet wide by thirty-five feet 

 in length, and has windows opening on the pi- 

 azza to the east, on the sea, or the bay, to the 

 south, and on the moors to the north. Yet it 

 is so placed that the last rays of the setting sun 

 get into the house. On the north side of the 

 building, which is shingled from top to bottom, 

 and has never been painted, the storms of win- 

 ter and the sun of summer gradually giving it 

 a silver hue beyond the beauty of any artificial 

 paint, is a tennis-court, shaded in the afternoon 

 by the house. Back, there is a garden, small 

 but perfectly kept up, a chicken-yard, an apiary, 

 and other out-houses. The nearness to the sea 



