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Thus, to save the uniform plainness of the straight gable-line, it is broken into small gradations called 'crow-steps. Every one who looks at old houses in Scotland must be familiar with this feature, and must have noticed its picturesqueness.
There was a house with charming high brick gables at either end, with little battlemented crow-steps, and with graceful chimney-stacks at the top. There was another solid Georgian house, with thick white casements and moss-grown tiling all of them showing signs of neglect and fallen fortunes.
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