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hot and cold water ; there are stationary tubs ; 

 and a small wind-mill on the little tool house 

 near the orchard pumps all the water to the 

 tank that the house can use. As we are near 

 the sea, it is rare that the breeze is not sufficient 

 to turn the mill, which cost less than $200 all 

 complete. The well is a driven one, and gives 

 an inexhaustible supply of good water. 



It is hard to give in words any thing like an 

 adequate picture of this home. Take a hot 

 night in summer, with the breeze blowing right 

 across our big room, and there is no more de- 

 lightful place for music and talk. Until long 

 after dark the only light comes from the small 

 lamp inside a big swinging wrought-iron bell 

 which hangs in the centre of the room, a piece 

 which I picked up years ago in a junk shop ; 

 it may have been intended for a hanging lamp, 

 but I am inclined to think that it was originally 

 part of the balcony railing of an old-fashioned 

 house in lower Broadway. At all events, it 

 serves its present purpose admirably. The 

 opalescent glass with which it is now fitted 

 casts a subdued light throughout even so big a 

 room as ours. If it is pleasant in summer, it is 

 better in winter. Upon one of our cold blowy 



