100 TlMEHRI. 
" Stone I cannot get, wood I want not, while bricks 
well faced with surface rubbed, will ever show and make 
visible to all, ugly splits and cracks, rents and open 
joints ; for settlements, like scandals, are sure to come 
where weakness abounds below ; and my building is 
built, in spite of piles deep driven in, on soft wet mud, 
much deeper still ; I will then fashion a front of stucco, 
for like kind charity it will cover many a venial fault, 
and may prevent some more serious ones ; and what 
is mostly to be considered, it will readily allow itself to 
be speedily repaired. Frost, the dire enemy of all plastic 
work at home, shall not, cannot touch it here ; and 
other advantages I fail not to procure. Then, stucco I will 
use, for it will befriend me much, nor shall it belie or exalt 
itself like unto stone or marble, or humble itself to wood 
or wattling. Stucco shall be its name at birth, and ce- 
ment and plaster shall stand proxy for it." 
Finishing with the Public Building, and leaving'the Law 
Courts for a moment we will come now to a building, not 
of stone or stucco or of brick or wood, but of something 
possessing very much the appearances of tin, — the new 
zinc or galvanized iron market place of our town. Strange 
minds have worked out a somewhat original metal build- 
ing here, and no doubt many a tinsmith, blacksmith and 
metal worker found much employment during its construc- 
tion. This vast building, as a mere constructive piece of 
zinc, iron, and engineering work, may be good, answering 
well its object, sheltering many and protecting much ; 
and is moreover about the finest gathering ground for 
water in the town. But when we look upon the struc- 
ture with other than merely utilitarian eyes, those eyes 
are sorely offended at many things. 
