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Rural Architecture. 
self, would have none pf what he termed the 
“ homeliness of his sire,” and sought out 
other inventions more consonant to his am¬ 
bitious fancy for display. But he has got 
older now, and as he begins to rejoice in the 
more sedate appellation of UncJe Sam, we 
think he is growing wiser, and caring less 
for tinsel and show, and more for an appro¬ 
priate fitness of things and substantial com¬ 
fort. 
It is our purpose hereafter, to give sketch¬ 
es occasionally in this work, of such build¬ 
ings as we think most appropriate for the 
farmer, and as an example of one of the more 
humble kind, we here introduce the cottage 
of Elstow, where the celebrated author of 
Pilgrim’s Progress, John Banyan, was born, 
and to add to the interest of the engraving, 
we subjoin a fac simile of his hand writing 
and signature. 
Cottage of John Bunyan.—(Fig. 40.) 
Chirography of John Bunyan. 
Autograph of John Bunyan. 
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Jbor these rare engravings we are indebted 
o the same gentleman, the Rev. J. O. Choules, 
who furnished us with the curious work of 
Barnabe Googe, Esq., whom we took the 
liberty of introducing to our readers in the 
October and November Nos. of our paper, 
and we declare, had we not been informed, 
that this cottage was Bunyan’s, we should 
have set it down at once as the home of 
the author of the “ Foore Bookes of Hus¬ 
bandries’ For see what a sequestered re¬ 
treat it is, and how charmingly embowered 
in trees. These are the places to talk upon 
farming, and we will venture to say, that had 
