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OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES. 



What then ? Must it needs be condemned for this 

 reason ? 



I do not, indeed, commend it for any beauty, per 

 se, but as being an honest, well-intended shelter and 

 resting-place, which could be grafted upon many an 



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old-style farm-house, with bare door, and set off its 

 barrenness, with quaint, simple lines of hospitality, 

 that would add more to the real effect of the home 

 than a cumbrous series of joiner's arches of tenfold its 

 cost. In the door itself I have dropped a hint of 

 many an ancient door which confronts the high-road 

 in a score of New England villages. People do not 

 instruct their carpenters to build such doors now ; 

 yet I can conceive of worse ones, glazed up and 



