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 382 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. 788 luflFer-boardsareshutclose down, so as to admit the least quantity of light, and the handle is, in consequence, raised to g) necessarily coincides with the ring staple at (7; when, by inserting an iron pin through the hole in the lever handle, and through this staple, the luffer- boarding is locked, and becomes a secure shutter. Fig. 790 is a view of a single lath or luffer-board, in the ends of which are seen the two small iron pivots or studs which work into the holes shown in the two lever rods, fig. 792. Fig. 793 is a fragment of the section fig. 791, on a large scale ; in which ai'e shown the luffcr-boards locked, the lever handle, h, being at its highest point. These figures will be understood by any car- penter, if not by all our readers; and though win- dows and blinds of this description may be thought too good for stables and cow-houses of the commonest kind, yet, for amateurs, we have no hesitation in stating it to be our opinion, that they are far preferable to any others which have yet been invented. No other construction gives 1 a 789