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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 503

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old. This is a large,oblong building made of logs of keaki (kee-ah-kee), a reddish-brown wood, put together in thelog-cabin style, and it is supported merely onwooden legs resting upon loose stones, as in thecase of the ordinary house described above. Nopart of the building has been renewed except… … A WAYSIDE TEA-HOUSE IN CHERRY-BLOSSOM TIME. The old castles which were the homes of thedaimio princes were built of stone; but these,too, were constructed so as to offer as littleresistance as possible to earthquake shocks.The walls slant from the base to the roof, andare supported within by…

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