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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
