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ing the whole southern flank of the apartment. The 

 parlor, too, has its two south windows, and although 



I should have preferred to place the chimney upon 

 the northern side, to the exclusion of the window 

 there, yet it seemed best to make use of the flue 

 already established. The hall is well lighted from 

 the north, and will give room for the hanging of any 

 of your great-aunt's portraits, if you have any. 



" There is an objection to traversing the dining- 

 room in going from the kitchen to the hall-door ; but 

 it could not well be obviated, with the existing shell 

 of your house, without reducing the size of the dining- 

 room too much, or (another resource) without increas- 

 ing largely the dimensions of the hall throwing the 

 intervening space between it and kitchen into store 



