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 MODEL DESIGNS FOR FARM HOUSES. 369 of persons on business belonging to the farm ; t, a fruit-room and china-closet, or room for the use of the mistress ; and u, a laundry. Fig. 754 may be the plan of the bed-room 754 or garret floor, in which a is the room for female servants, and b that for single men ; d, e, f, and g are bed-rooms for members of the family, or for strangers ; and A is a lumber-room. The entrance to the two servants' rooms is from the landing of the staii-case, in consequence of which they can go down stairs without disturbing the rest of the family ; and the entrance to all the other bed-rooms is from the gallery, which is pro- jected from the side walls of the dining-room, as shown in the section fig. 755. The gallery, the staircase, and also the dining-room below, may be amply lighted during the day from the four skj-lights, which lights have double sashes ; viz., outside ones of the same slope as the roof, which slide the one over the other like those of a hot-house, with very small panes, as before described ; and inside ones, which are perpendicular, and open like common sash windows. Both sashes may be worked from below by lines and pulleys. A lamp suspended in the centre of the dining-room will light it, the staircase, and the doors opening into all the other rooms, in the evening. For the sake of economy, the outer walls of the bed-rooms are kept low ; but as they are larger in length and width, Q <J