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enough to leave a quarter-inch slot when in place. In some types of cornice this 

 would perhaps make a stiffer job than if the slot were continuous. 



In any case the slots or drains should be covered on the inside with copper 

 netting of small enough mesh to prevent bees, wasps and the like from filling the 

 cornice with nests and music, and thus inviting further trouble by their presence. 

 This fixes the cornice box, but unless the projection is considerable there is 

 still the roof above and inside the wall line. This roof surface can be taken care 

 of by stretching a wide length of zinc or painted canvas across the rafters from a 



" Maxwell Court," Rockville, Conn. Charles A. Platt, architect. This is a most interesting example of brick and stone 

 work designed on Italian lines. The wooden cornice is of the box type and is well proportioned 



point outside of the wall line toward the roof. Seven-eighths-inch furring strips 

 are laid on top of the rafters to receive the shingle strips and to make a space 

 between them and the zinc. The latter should be brought up through the 

 roof, at the top edge, and tacked down to the upper side of the boarding under 

 the shingles (see 2, Fig. 6). The sheathing paper should be omitted between the 

 boarding and shingles in this sort of construction. By the above methods much 

 annoyance and damage to the interior and contents of the house may be avoided. 

 The true open cornice is not boxed in at the bottom but open, showing the 

 rafter ends which support it. These last are usually more or less ornamental, 



