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 often wish that the builders of our day, the great landowners of Wales, as the case may be, or you rich London people who go down to Wales and build your houses on our hillsides, would remember these two things that our forefathers did naturally.

Before we go inside the old Welsh home, there are one or two other points which are always of great interest to me, in fact three points,—the porch, the window, and the chimney. It is very seldom that I see in modern houses in Wales the same charm either of chimney or of window or of porch as in the old Welsh houses, and these are not matters to be trifled with. I think that the square, squat chimney on a house is one of the ugliest and the most portentous monstrosities that the eye can rest upon, and I feel a certain joy when I think of some of the old houses, especially some old Tudor and Stuart houses hi Wales, where the chimneys themselves are things of beauty, not those square, squat piles of stone, but fine long, almost sinuous chimneys that are a joy to look at. The windows of many of the old houses are not