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��A Model of Joel Chandler Harris' Old Homestead

FOR the encouragement of a fund for the purchase of Snap Bean Farm, famous as the home of Joel Chandler Harris ("Uncle Remus"), a doll's house made to resemble the Harris home — "Wren's Nest" — has been built by Eli J. Memory, of Richmond, Va.

ture "Wren's Nest" became popular with the young "^ folks. Sub-
 * 1) The minia-

scriptions to the Snap Bean Farm fund were readily forthcoming, because each contributor

��had an opportunity to draw for the doll's house.

The little house required two arduous weeks for its construction. It is made of eighty tiny "logs" cut along the banks of Peachtree Creek near Atlanta. The structure is forty-five inches long, forty-three inches high and twenty-eight inches wide. It has a twelve-inch veranda on the front and an eight-inch porch in the rear. There is a nine-inch hallway from front to rear, and the interior contains four rooms and five doorways. The roof is arranged on hinges so that it can be lifted to inspect the interior.

In building the house, Mr. Memory used one thousand one hundred and forty-one pieces of pine, willow, ash, mulberry and grapevine. The roof is made up of six hundred and forty-four pine shingles made from lathing.

���To raise a fund for the purchase of Joel Chandler Harris' home, a doll's house, a replica of the Harris home, was made the prize in a lottery

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