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 748 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. 7 feet high, with four-panel square door to ditto, hung with 4-inch butts ; and fix on ditto a 9-inch strong copper ward best drawback lock, and two keys ; the style to framing next window to be turned flat against the wall, and to be 5 inches by 2 inches, rabbeted and spiked. Fix on the top l^^-inch deal styles, and proper ledged flap, hung with 18-inch strong garnets and screws, and fastened with a strong hasp and staple. Scribe and fix 1^-inch deal lining up to the sash frame and the glass. Frame and fix in the doorway to the boys' school a fir proper doorcase, G inches by 4 inches, let into the stone steps, the head 9 inches by 4 inches, moulded outside ; and hang to the doorcase 2-inch deal four-panel three large beads flush and square folding doors, hung with three pair of strong 5-inch wrought-iron butts and screws. Fix a lO-inch solid brass knol) drawback lock, with copper wards, and brass bolts, and two keys. Fix two |-inch iron rod bolts, 2 feet long, with strong iron plates. Fix scribed linings round the inside, and a moulding along the door head, and a solid sash frame, sill, and sashes over, hung ; the whole to correspond with the other sashes, and to be framed. Fix a fir wrought framed rabbeted and double-beaded frame to the opening of the doorway to the house, 6 inches by 4 inches, with head 9 inches wide, weathered and moulded; and hang to ditto a 2-inch deal four-panel three large beads flush and square door, with 4-inch butts, one 9-inch brass knob best copper ward drawback lock, and two keys ; two 10-inch brass knob Strong barrel bolts. Fix over ditto a 2-inch deal square rabbeted fanlight frame, and metal fan, and glass ; and inside, inch staff beaded lining and mouldmg over the door. — Closets. Frame and fix two l^-inch deal double closet fronts on the staircase, with square doors, two in width ; the upper closet 7 feet high, with inch deal divisions, and shelves 1 8 inches wide, three in each closet, and inch deal rounded top to the upper one ; inch deal floors and joists, bearers, &c. ; 2^-inch butts and screws, and 3-inch brass tumbler lock and key on each door (the tumbler of a lock is a piece of iron, or other metal, inside the lock, to make the bolt act truly and easily) ; prepare and fix, in the boys' and in the girls' school, a large closet for books, 3 feet by 1 foot 6 inches, and 7 feet high each, of 1 j-inch deal square framed front and door, and inch deal ends, wrought on both sides, and J-inch deal back, all wrought, ploughed, and tongued, &c. ; four inch deal shelves in each, and top, and bearers, 2^-inch iron butts, and 3-inch brass locks and keys to each. — Desks and Forms. Prepare and fix on each side of the girls' school and of the boys' school, l:|-inch deal desks and forms, with legs and bearers to the forms and desks, 5 feet apart ; a scribed fillet against the wall, and 14-inch beaded rail under the desks, and |^-inch deal on each side of the forms, and holes for lead inkstan.ds, and to supply them. Fix a form only, of a similar kind, all along the east end of the boys' school, and provide six loose unfixed forms of a similar kind, each 8 feet long, for the girls' school. Provide and fix in the girls' school two lengths of inch deal rail (3 inches wide), with iron pins 8 inches apart, all along over the desks. Provide and fix wrought iron on the edges of the desks, 1 inch and a quarter wide by one sixteenth of an inch thick, screwed on. — Staircase. Fix 1^-inch deal, rounded treads, inch deal risers, and double carriage, with the steps properly housed into it, and the nosings returned, from the kitchen up to the two pair; 1^-inch beaded wall strings and capping, ramped ; 1^-inch deal framed raking string, rabbeted, staft-beaded, cut, mitred, and sunk ; turned deal newels, red oak moulded handrail, fi-amed strong deal bar balusters, 1^-inch deal rounded nosings, J-inch deal staff-beaded trimmer linings, gussets (the string board continued beyond the newel up to the ceiling in a triangular shape), &c. ; proper 1^-inch landings, carriage, &c. Fix inch deal boarding, ploughed tongued and beaded on both sides up to the ceiling of the ground floor, and down to the kitchen floor, to enclose the staircase. — Kitchen. Frame and fix I^-inch deal front, to enclose the staircase on the ground floor, with li^-inch deal 4 inch panel square door and hinges, and 7 inch lock, as to the other doors, with stops, &c. Fix a 1^-inch deal dresser-top |^-inch pot-board and bearers under, proper framed legs, rails, and runners (pieces of wood for the drawers to slide on, and to guide them), one drawer stock and two japan handles ; inch framed end and backrail ; two 1^-inch deal sunk shelves, and cut standards, ^-inch beaded fascia and top, and quirk ogee bead, and bead on the dresser to keep the plates from sli])ping. To put 1^-inch chimney- shelf, with rounded corners, and two holdfasts; l^j-inch deal, ploughed and tongued, with dovetailed cistern rims and bottom, and flap ; and linings, in the ceiling floor to get at ditto, carriage for ball-cock, casings for pipes, &c. — Privies. Frame and fix two fir jjlates imder flat, R inches by 4 inches, wrouglit and beaded, and ll-inch square fillet on ditto, and under ditto 1^ inch wrought and framed oak uprights 4 inches wide; and fix between the privies inch oak divisions, ploughed, tongued, and beaded, and ledged, with l)ack boards, and l^j-inch oak scats and bearers, with holes cut in ditto to six privies, and inch oak risers, ledged water boards and wide fillet; and fix in two privies iJ-indi deal seats, risers and bearers, clamped and beaded flaps and frames, J-inch jilain skirtings, two inch butts, cut holes in seats, and for cocks, water pipes, &c., and fix