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rafters spanning the space between 
the thick white pillars and the over- 
hang, while upon them is built a 
trellis over which clamber Crimson 
Ramblers in riotous profusion, 
Honeysuckle and Virginia Creeper. 
In June when this living covering is 
ablaze with burning-hued bloom, 
outlined against the white back- 
ground, the sight beggars words. 
The Rose vines and the Honeysuckle 
overhead, although the sunlight 
filters through in playful patches on 
the floor, give the porch plenty of 
shade without shutting off the air 
or darkening the lower rooms and 
altogether make a pleasant variant 
from a solid roof which is apt to 
be stuffy. 
A doorway that it would take 
something more than “‘the full of 
a door of a man’”’ to fill opens into 
a spacious hall that runs quite 
across the house to a door opposite, 
from which one steps out into the 
broad_ porch. overlooking the 
gardens. At each end of the house 
great outstanding brick chimneys rise like twin sentinels and 
contribute an air of massive solidity to the whole structure. 
Half way between the ground and their tops, on their outer 
faces, appear the black iron S plates’ of tie-rods which, by 
their quaint piquancy, enhance the charm of the stack’s pro- 
portions. Each chimney is surmounted by three or more 
red earthenware chimney pots shaped for all the world like 
bean-pots, so much so in fact that one irreverent but 
original member of the family would forswear its present 
name, ‘“The Hedges,” and call the place ‘“The Bean-pots.” 
On the front away from the road—the back, if you insist 
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The brick-paved porch, whose floor is on a level with 
the lawn, instead of having a solid roof has staunch 
rafters spanning the space between the thick white 
pillars and the overhang 
end farthest from the house is a rectangular Lily pool, against a bank of shrubbery of great beauty 
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on calling it so—the slope of the 
roof, descending all the way to the 
eaves above the first floor, is broken 
at several points by windows so set 
in that their tops project but little be- 
yond the general surface and the 
outline is not disturbed by fussy, 
popping dormers. On this side the 
second floor projects beyond the 
first by the width of a whole room 
and is supported on more of the 
robust but tapering round barn 
piers that are so characteristic of 
the house. ‘The space beneath this 
overshoot, this overhanging story, 
is paved with brick and makes a de- 
lightful outdoor living-room. From 
this point the view over the gardens, 
beyond the hedges, past the Lom- 
bardy poplars that rear their 
slender shafts behind a wall of 
privet and across a wide expanse of 
rolling, billowy countryside makes 
one feel that they really own the 
county. ‘To cast eye and mind over 
these miles of the old Welsh 
Barony—all the land about was 
once a part of that famous tract—when Autumn’s golden 
haze has wrapped the fields or when a gray November sky, 
whirling with scudding rack, sends down a freshening breeze 
that seems the breath of untamed Cambrian spirits of the 
upper air and calls up wild Gaelic memories of legendary 
things, brings a rare delight that words cannot utter. One 
cannot dwell too strongly on the value of such an outlook 
for, after all, the view we have from our windows is just 
as real an asset, albeit heaven has bestowed it upon us even 
without the asking, as the actual fabric of our dwellings for 
which we have usually spent much good coin of the realm. 
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