AND WHERE TO FIND OXE. 167 



&quot; * I have thus a tight-shingled and plastered house, ten feet 

 wide by fifteen feet long, and eight-feet posts, with a garret 

 and closet, a large window on each side, two trap-doors, one 

 door at the end, and a brick fire-place opposite. The exact 

 cost of my house, paying the usual price for such materials 

 as I used, but not counting the work, all of which was by 

 myself, was as follows ; and I give the details, because very 

 few are able to tell exactly what their houses cost, and 

 fewer still, if any, the separate cost of the various materials 

 which compose them : 



Boards, mostly shanty boards, $8 03* 



Eefuse shingles for roof and sides, 4 00 



Laths, 1 25 



Two second-hand windows, with glass, 2 43 



One thousand old brick, 4 00 



Two casks of lime, 2 40 



Hair, 31 



Mantle-tree iron, 15 



Nails, 3 90 



Hinges and screws, 14 



Latch, 10 



Chalk, 01 



Transportation, 1 40 



In all, $28 12* 



&quot; These are all the materials, excepting the timber, stones, 

 and sand, which I claimed by squatter s right. I have also 

 a small wood-shed adjoining, made chiefly of the stuff which 

 was left after building the house. 



&quot;Obtaining his fuel in an adjacent wood, at the cost 

 merely of gathering it, he details his house-keeping ex 

 penses as follows : 



&quot; The expense of food for eight months, from July 4th 

 to March 1st, the time when these estimates were made 

 though I lived there more than two years not counting 



