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should such a man trouble himself about architecture ? 
His only attempt in the building line may be the running 
up of a chicken house or the erecting of a pigeon pole ; 
but with architecture he will not allow himself to be 
troubled or his purse to be taxed ; hence it follows that 
if a real live independent architect appeared on our mud 
shores, seeking private practice or employment, and his 
life depended entirely on that practice, it would hardly 
be worth two days' purchase ! 
Doctors have a practice and lawyers too ; but the poor 
architect he has none, and consequently the main point 
before our minds is this : that as there are no un- 
attached professional architects in the town, and 
nothing indeed to encourage them to come out from 
home and go in for private practice here, there will 
be no domestic architecture worth speaking about. 
What then is the use of humbly suggesting what should, 
or could or might be done if there is no one here to do it, 
or as shown above no one wishing or caring to have it done 
— must the builder be allowed to have his way ? — and 
give us a mangled mongrel style of architecture. 
Seeing the difficulty without seeing the way out of it — 
we pass on to make a few suggestions. In the first place 
it is only fair to notice that if our dwelling houses are not 
art productions, they have very little in them positively to 
offend. They certainly have the advantage over those offen- 
sive and art affecting buildings in many a country town in 
England, where some upstart ignoramus has been playing 
with architecture and making at the same time a complete 
mess or muddle of it, and spreading bad taste around. In 
our wooden buildings there is not much to call forth the 
exclamation " how ugly ! how monstrous ! what bad 
