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 644 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. pigeons, and a gavdcn of a quarter of an acre. All these conveniences of the house lie has contrived to get within a space of 640 superficial feet, as shown in the details given in figs. 1228 to 1235. 1362. Details. In fig. 1228 are seen the ascending steps, a, to the living-room, 6 ; the 1228 sleeping-room, c, with its small iron stove, d, and its two beds, the larger for the master and mistress, and the smaller one for the youngest child. The grown-up children are supposed to sleep in the beds, e e, in the living-room. The two rabbit places are shown at ff; the wood-shed at g, the pigsty at h, the poultry-house at i, the privy at k, the cow-house at /, the dairy at m, and the stair down to the cellar at n. It should be remarked, with respect to the poultry place, that it is of the greatest importance to the occupant to keep it warm ; and that it might even be worth while (with a view to this end) to have a communication between this and the kitchen, or. the oven. Were this done, Morel- Vinde says, the occupant might have hens to lay in the middle of winter ; and might rear broods of chickens for sale early in the spring, when they fetch a very high price. Without artificial heat, he says, fowls are no great benefit to a farm labourer, who must necessarily purchase at least a part of their food ; but with it they may prove a source of considerable profit, according to the skill of the mistress, and the distance of the market. Fig. 1229 is a plan of the foundations, in which o is the stair , down to the bakehouse ; p, the bakehouse, and </, the oven. Fig. 1 230 is a plan of the garret-floor, which forms the ceiling of the two rooms. Fig. 1231 is a front elevation. Fig. 1 232 is an end elevation. Fig. 1 233 is a cross section. Fig. 1 234 is a longi- tudinal section, in which are seen the oven, r ; the kitchen fireplace, s ; the sleeping- room stove, with its funnel, t ; the garret, entered by a ladder to a door seen in the front elevation, u; the level of the wood-.slied and pigsty, i; and cow-house, u'- Fig. 1235 is