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men through a wire sheep or cattle fence, I take a forked 

 stem of a tree, as shown in Fig. i, and sink it about 3 feet 

 in the ground. I then fasten the wires tightly to the forked 

 part by staples, and afterwards cut the wires, double them 

 back round the forks, and drive more staples over the folded- 



in ends. This gives a ready, simple and useful stile. One 

 has to choose a fork which will keep out a sheep or ox, and 

 allow a man to pass through. One can vary or improve the 

 stile at will — (i) by putting in a block A (Fig. 2) and spiking 

 it down; or (2) by putting in a higher block like B (Fig. 3), 

 and other logs (C) to act as steps to the stile. In the last case 

 a rabbit wire-netting can be added. 



Lt.-Col. Martin-Martin. 



