and blue to the north, and on this hill the red clover pasture and the 
plum-trees and some gnarly oaks, then down hill through a fringe of 
woodland on the steep hill incline and then the cornfield and the 
orchard, and after that the rich soil through which the ravine digs its 
deep trench and grows its many pastorals and on the north-east corner 
some noble walnuts which shake their odorous fruits on the ground after 
the first keen frost bites into them, and under their shadows my house 
of two rooms is built. In the front room is the organ and in the back 
room the coffee pot; though I have scarcely stated the case with the 
accuracy such as marks my usual observations. Accurately stated there 
isno back room. Both are front rooms. I think highly of this architec- 
tural plan. The family lives in the front of the house, which gives an 
air of gentility and breeding not secured in the old architecture. The 
house is built lengthwise with the road, which plan does not necessitate 
the housewife leaving the meat to burn or the coffee to boil over while 
she runs to the front room to see who is going past in a buggy and what 
beau that Smith girl (the one who was sixteen ten years ago) has now 
—but she can keep on with the cooking and look out at the front window 
at the same time. It saves shoes and time and nerve force and 
muscles, and biscuits from burning. A grasping man would have 
patented this revolutionary idea in architecture and vended it as they 
do proprietary medicines. Notsol. In this open way I give my dis- 
covery to the world as physicians their remedies. The design ot the 
house is as follows: 
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