Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 79
or the moment, with sticks. About two and one-half feet from this string, and parallel to it on the ground, we stretched and fastened two other strings, kx and dz, and another, xz, through C at right angles with them. Taking away string A C, we now had the three sides, k x, x z, andr</. We… … thirty-sixinches wide. Our line of mark-ing sticks now stoodas in Fig. 7, H beingthe tree trunk. The shape of our tree decided somewhat the planof our house, and the plan of yours may be settledlikewise ; but the remaining directions can prob- A HOUSE OF STRING. 545 ably be followed very closely.…
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