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 PAROCHIAL COUNTRY SCHOOLS. 1395 763 ^ ^~< T n U LT T X its width ; or if it be 29 feet wide, when it will admit two classes. The windows are placed 5 feet 6 inches above the floor, to allow the space under them to be occupied by desks, forms, and a hat-rail. There are privies, c c, to each school ; and, if thought advisable, a doorway may be made under the window of the boys' schoolroom, direct from that room into the yard where the boys' privies are placed ; the same may be done with regard to the girls' school. There is a porch to the girls' school, d, which, like that to the boys' school, may be enclosed with doors ; e e ar« places for fuel ; f, girls' school, 26 feet by 1 6 feet 6 inches, 12 feet 6 inches high at the sides, and 16 feet in the centre, capable of containing 80 girls. The height of both rooms is obtained in the manner shown in section C D, fig. 1397. Both schools are to be ventilated by openings for air in the gables near the ridges, by which means a current of air will be always passing into and through the upper part of the roof; g, a sitting-room for the master and mistress, 13 feet by 10 inches, and 9 feet high, with a fireplace and closet; h, a small bed-room, 10 feet 6 inches by 6 feet 6 inches, and 9 feet high, with a closet under the staircase leading to a bed-room over h and g, 13 feet by 1 1 feet 6 inches, and 8 feet high : the sides are formed into closets, as shown on the section A B, fig. 1396 ; A is a porch to the master's dwelling ; Z, a larder ; m, a place for fuel ; n, boys' play-ground ; and o, girls' play-ground. In fig. 1397, drawn to a scale of 10 feet to an inch, a a is the collar-beam which forms the ceiling to the boys' school-room ; b is the king-post ; c, the ridge-piece ; d, the purlin j 4 K