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 INTERIOR FINISHING OF FARM HOUSES. 653 the right representing how many minutes it is past such an hour. This arrangement will be more easily understood by looking at the face of the clock in the drawing, than by any description. I think it particularly useful for farm servants, and such sort of people, in the counti-y ; many of whom I have known, who could not teU the minutes otherwise than by guess. At the angles of the face I have the four seasons painted, and on each side 1 have an urn lined with lead, in which I can put water for keeping cut flowers. The upper part, a, of this urn, takes off, to admit of changing the water and arranging the flowers. Under the head of the clock I have shelves fixed for books, as the pendulum