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   BY

    F. C. BURNAND,

    Author of “Happy Thoughts,” “More Happy Thoughts,”

    “Out of Town,” &c.

   Illustrated by the Author

   BOSTON:

   ROBERTS BROTHERS.

   1872.

   HAPPY THOUGHT HALL.

    THE IDEA—ADVICE—TITLE—PLAN—ON PAPER—SUGGESTION—COST—BOODELS—OLD FRIENDS—JENKYNS SOAMES—DESIGNS—STAIRCASES—BAYS—OBJECTIONS—ORDER OF ARCHITECTURE—STABLES—PRICE—GIVEN UP—CAZELL'S IDEA.

    appy Thought.

   —To get a country house for the winter. To fill it with friends. To have one wing for bachelors. Another wing for maidens with

    chaperons

   . To have the

    Nave

   , as it were, of the house, for the married people.

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