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‘In every (horned) house of the richer and more prosperous, the front door opens on an oblong hall or living room, of equal length with the middle section of the roof or that between the central pair of horns. To the rear are the sleeping rooms and kitchen, and when the houses have wings, there are a few steps at each end of the main apartment leading to raised sleeping rooms or platforms, shut off by curtains. The houses are all raised high above the ground on posts, and this lower space is often fenced in with lattice and used as a cellar and carriage-house, probably sometimes even as a stable, piggery, or chicken house.’¹