CHAPTER XI 
THE BUILDING LINE 
BeroreE leaving Four Oaks that day I had a 
long conversation with Nelson, the carpenter. I 
had taken his measure, by inquiry and observa- 
tion, and was willing to put work into his hands 
as fast as he could attend to it. The first thing 
was to put him in possession of my plan of a 
building line. 
. Two hundred feet south of the north line of 
_ the home lot a street or lane was to run due west 
_ from the gate on the mainroad. This was to be 
the teaming or business entrance to the farm. 
a Commencing three hundred feet from the east 
at end of this drive, the structures were to be as 
- follows: On the south side, first a cold-storage 
house, then the farm-house, the cottage, the well, 
and finally the carriage barn for the big house. 
On the north side of the line, opposite the ice- 
house, the dairy-house ; then a square with a small 
_ power-house for its centre, a woodhouse, a horse 
_ barn for the farm horses, a granary and a forage 
barn for its four corners. Beyond this square to 
_ the west was the fruit-house and the tool-house 
_ —the latter large enough to house all the farm 
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