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The roof may be covered with shingles, or witn boards. 

 Shingles are made from the pine, by cutting a pine-tree 

 down, and then cutting it with a saw called a "cross-cut 

 saw," into lengths or blocks of eighteen inches long, (they 

 are cut sometimes twenty-four inches long,) and these 

 blocks are split into thin slices of different breadths, but 

 they will be about one length. These are shaved off with 

 a drawing-knife, at one end, when the shingle is done. 

 They are sold from one and a half dollars to two and a 

 half dollars per bunch, containing what is called one 

 thousand shingles, of different breadths. A thousand 

 shingles will cover about ten feet square of a roof, (that 

 is, equal to 100 square feet.) They are laid on boards, 

 (and the roughest and cheapest boards, split or sound, 

 will do,) like the slates or tiles of the old country houses. 

 No rain or wet will get through them, and they answer 

 all the purposes of the slated, tiled, or thatched roof of a 

 house in the old country. But the roof of the shanty may 

 be covered with boards. These are put on the roof, 



