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all directions! Such absurd windows of all shapes and sizes, stuck in such absurd places! Such queer little stoops and porches set impertinently in the most unlikely spots! And then the materials used—stone, brick, shingles, stucco! Not a respectable clapboard from one end of the community to the other! (The farm-houses, being in a locality where stone in any quantity may be had for the lifting, are, naturally enough, built of wood.) But the farm-houses and their occupants have long since stopped marvelling at the strange studios and their stranger denizens; one can get used to anything! The farmers have even come to look upon the artists, if not with respect, at least with tolerance,—tolerance composed of about equal measures of gratitude and contempt; for the artists are eager purchasers of