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Alices The Japonicas that looked like, we called them camelias, and of course they had Pomegranete trees. But they had more Pomegranete trees in the back than they did in the front. What did the front of the house look like? Alice: The front of the house was very tall and very imposing and you walked up one, two, three, like Fort Knox, shallow steps, not deep ateps and more or less all curved and with on either side a thing whinh ynn now 1 ri h 11 rl o down on, whnt do you call THAT? I don't know what you call it. It was slippery. Mamoo: It was wrought iron. Alice: They were NOT wrought iron. It was wood. Look, Beverly, she and I are not going to agree about anything. Mamoo: It's not important at all. Alice: Well, it wasn't wrought iron. It is of wood. And then you got up on the gallery and then they had a statue, a big pillar of something there. Then they DID have some wrought iron, around here and around there and some around here too, then you had the door which was lovely. And they had, on either side, they had different colored glass. Do you remember that? Or am I wrong? Mamoo: No. I think you're right. I think you're right. And then they'd open the doors and when you'd go into the house you'd open the door and you'd see a great big enormous wide hallway which went all the way through from the front of the house to the very back. You would eat in the large dining room? Mamoo: Well, no, no, no. The hall.,.. Alice: We're not in the dining room yet. You're walking into the front door into a hall. And a large size hall that went to the back gallery. Mamoo: Yes, now, when you got to the very back part of the house, the hallway you see, you turn to the left and there was another wide hall leading to the dining room. The dining room was an octagonal room which was off that hallway, you see, and there was a great big enormous dining room there, you see. But we skipped a part now because we'd forgotten the drawing room, the parlor. Alice: On the left-hand side as you go in. It was a tremendous parlor that lasted from the front of the house to the hall that went to the dining room mgmin. 10
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