Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 183
inchessquare, with joists for the under timbers. Thejoists or flooring-beams rest on the ends ofposts embedded 2 feet in the ground, to whichthey are spiked with long steel-wire nails. Theflooring, of 4-inch matched boards, is laid onthe space within the four corner uprights, andthe same or wider… … FIG. 7. A HOUSE-TENT — OPEN. end of another, so as to distribute the strongerparts of the wood evenly all over the lattice. This arrangement applies also to the shorteror cross-pieces, and when finished the mattressis laid on a pair of poles supported with crotchedsticks, as shown in Fig. 6, but…
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