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fusion when " the water has come through." 

 Besides, a permanent open window-frame 

 does not tend to warm, in spring and au- 

 tumn, the adjoining rooms. Thus I should 

 be much disposed, with all due deference to 

 those who advocate the more open p,lan, to 

 advise that the window-sashes should be left 

 in place, covered within with a frame in 

 which wire-work has been fitted, the top 

 sash being let down every day in spring 

 and autumn, and in summer both day and 

 night. A Venetian blind outside, or be- 

 tween the window and the wire, is a great 

 gain, for the windows can then always 

 be closed directly if any violent storm 

 comes on. 



I have known birds often die in numbers 

 a few days or hours after a severe thunder- 

 storm, to the glare and fear of which the 

 poor frightened things had been exposed. 

 When any such alarming event is going on, 

 I always let in my birds to my own room, 

 and talk to, and pet them, which is an evi- 



