ADVICE FOR LACKLAND. 



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I want, too, my after-dinner lounges at a sunny door, 

 where I can smoke my pipe, basking in the yellow 

 light, as I watch the shadows chasing over the grass. 

 About the stupid little design I send you, there is 

 neither hope nor possibility of this. 



" Again, even with a dining-room, or library 

 added, and perhaps a kitchen, I shall be still in want 

 of further chamber range, which if I gain (as our 

 carpenter suggests) by piling on a story more, it 

 appears to me that I should give to the narrow front 

 of the house an absurd cock-loft look that would be 

 unendurable. 



" Mrs. L. and myself have scored out an incredible 

 number of diagrams all which have been discussed, 

 slept on, admired, and eventually condemned. Some- 

 times it is the old pinched entrance way that works 

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