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 MODKL DESIGNS I'Oll FAUM HOUSES. 758 371 759 steps, r. The plan of the ceiling joists over this floor is represented in fig. 759. Over these joists there is a garret, which may be entered either tVom a staircase, formed in a porch behind, placed at o, in fig. 758, and corresponding with that in front ; or by an outside ladder. On the sup- position that it is entered by a ladder in front, its door is represented in the elevation, fig. 760, in which may be seen the two small windows to the bake- house and cellar ; the doors of the harness-room and water-closet in the two wings ; the entrance door of glass, the window to the kitchen, that to the parlour, and that to the cabinet or oflfice. Fig. 761 is a side view, in which the projection of the porch is consj^icuous at s, the window of the harness-room is seen at t, and of the dairy at u. Fig. 762 is a longitudinal section, in which the oven is seen at h, with its ash-pit imderneath ; the kitchen fireplace over it at i, the parlour at k, the garret at I, the ventilator to the dairy at m, and to the water-closet at n ; and the doors to the two bed-rooms at o. In fig. 763 we have given a perspective view of this improved French farm house, varying the form of the chimney-tops ; of the angiC brackets of the porch ; adding rails to the outside stair ; giving a Gothic or old English character to the ventilators ; and placing the whole on a platform. A further improvement