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general assembly room is kept clean with the brushes made of grass stems, which serve also for hair brushes betimes. This parlor, sitting room, sleeping room, dining room and mealing room combined, serves nearly every purpose of the family; but there is always a grain room, where the corn is piled in neat rows, and sometimes a room is set apart for baking. The houses are rarely higher than two stories, the upper being set back in terrace style, so that its front door yard is the roof of the lower. The ladders are picturesque; dogs and chickens, as well as people, climb up and down. Stone steps on the partition walls lead to the roofs, and when on top it is possible to wander almost all over the town, as in the Orient. Ajar with the bottom knocked out caps the chimney, or a whole stack of jars runs clear up from the lower floor, securely plastered around the joints, making an excellent chimney. Short billets of piñon or cedar are piled up on the walls for firewood, and not a chip or strand of bark is wasted from the family woodpile. From the projecting beam ends and from pegs in the house front hangs