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long and ten feet wide, is walled with hemlock plank 

 nailed to cedar posts. These posts are six feet long, 

 so that they are two feet out of ground. The sill of the 

 house rests on them, and is sixteen feet long, but only- 

 eight feet broad. This makes the cellar project two 

 feet from the house on the long (southern) front. This 

 jprojecting space is covered with glass, slanting from 

 the sill to the edge of the cellar, and gives abundant 

 light and sun to the lower room. The upper house is 



FIG. 17 — A NOVEL HOUSE FOR WINTER LAYERS 



Tiine feet high at the ridgepole, sloping to four at the 

 eaves. A glazed door and two windows on the front, 

 and a smaller window at each end, give light enough. 

 In very small ground space this gives two distinct 

 houses, one eight by sixteen, and one ten by sixteen, 

 the lower house being six feet high in the clear. 



The interior arrangement is such that the work 

 can be done without soiling clothes. As shown in 

 Figure 19, the door opens into a central hallway four 

 feet wide, with a room six feet wide on each side of 

 it. In the floor of this hallway is an ample trap-door, 



