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possibly so well answer my purpose. I have 

 already told you that it would be good for 

 nothing for any other person. Your house, 

 my young reader, may be as beautiful, as curi- 

 ous, as large, and even as commodious for you, 

 as mine is for me ; but it would never answer 

 my purpose at all, even if I had it in my 

 power to exchange with you. 



In the progress of the following chapters, I 

 shall give you many more particulars. I shall 

 describe to you, in the best way I can, the 



FRAME, the COVERING, the APARTMENTS, the 



FURNITURE, and the EMPLOYMENTS of the 

 house I live in ; and shall give you, briefly, 

 an account of the structure, uses and abuses of 

 each. At first, I intended to insert a little 

 dictionary or vocabulary of the hard words 

 which occur, with their meanings ; but I be- 

 lieve it is unnecessary ; for there are few, if 

 any, whose meaning you will not know at once, 

 either by their sense or the situation in which 

 they are placed. 



