_Construction._--The frame of this building is of strong timber, and stout for its size. The sills should be eight inches square, the corner posts of the same size, and the intermediate posts 8 by 6 inches in diameter. In the centre of these posts, grooves should be made, two inches wide, and deep, to receive the _plank_ sides, which should be two inches thick, and let in from the level of the chamber by a flush cutting for that purpose, out of the grooves inside, thus using no nails or spikes, and holding the planks tight in their place that they may not be rooted out or rubbed off by the hogs, and the inner projection of the main posts left to serve as rubbing posts for them. Above the chamber floor thinner planks may be used. The centre post in the floor plan of the engraving is omitted, by mistake, but it should stand there, like the others. Inside posts at the corners, and in the sides of the partitions, like the outside ones, should be also placed and grooved to receive the planking, four and a half feet high, and their upper ends be secured by tenons into mortices in the beams overhead. The troughs should be made of cast-iron, or the hardest white oak plank, strongly spiked on to the floor and sides. [Illustration: PIGGERY.] [Illustration: GROUND PLAN.] Poetry. * * * * * THE INTERVIEW. BY T. HEMPSTEAD. THERE are oracles true in the depths of the mind, There are prophecies borne on the wings of the wind, There are omens that dwell in a flower or a leaf, To unbosom the future, its rapture and grief; There are voices of night with a language as plain As the accents of love or the moanings of pain, And I turn from the glare and the murmur of day, To the warnings and woes which their whispers betray.