Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 448
pper, to fit into similar notches cut in the logbelow, and in that which was to be placed on top.So each corner was formed by these interlacingand overlapping ends. The logs were piledup, one above another, just as children build cob-houses, from odds and ends of play-things. Cabin-builders do not… … .IAKING SHAKES WITH logs are bound together, from side to side, withsmaller logs fitted upon the upper logs of eachside and laid across as if they were to be thesupports of a floor for another story. Thenthe gable-ends are built up of logs, shorter andshorter as the peak of the gable is…
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