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not even been planed; the girder still shows 

 the marks of the axe, and here again rough 

 color comes to the rescue, for at a cost of less 

 than five dollars the whole ceiling has been 

 painted a rough brown red, giving an infinite 

 variety of nooks and corners in which the 

 shadows play. The frieze which runs round 

 the room three feet from the ceiling, and of the 

 decoration of which in silhouettes I have 

 already spoken, is painted very nearly black. 

 All the painting done in this room will last a 

 generation, and need never be renewed, so far 

 as actual effect goes. The woodwork within 

 reach, the doors, the floor, the stairs, the window 

 boxes and seats are all oiled pine, which may 

 be kept in admirable order at the expense of 

 about ten cents a month for kerosene and a 

 little labor in applying it. I have not yet tried 

 a winter in this house, but from the effect of 

 cold storms in the late autumn, I imagine that 

 it may be necessary to establish a large self- 

 feeding stove in one corner of the big room, 

 and perhaps carry the pipes across the room to 

 the chimney. For the heating of the upper 

 part of the house, I shall try, should we ever 

 need to live in it after Christmas, a plan which 



