OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



of ornamentation, has only its little rooflet. 

 The design represents this as of equal width 

 with the gate; but a somewhat better effect 



may be secured by an extension of 

 the roof some six or eight inches on 

 either side, in which case, of course, the 

 posts must be cut off even with the ridge, 

 and finials of cedar sticks adjusted at either 

 end. This bit of roof over the gateway gives 

 not only the hospitable air, which I remarked 

 upon in the previous chapter, but serves to 

 protect the rustic work from the weather to 

 such a degree that the bark will hold fast for 

 double the length of time. In all such work, 

 great annoyance is given by an insect which 

 devours the sapwood under the bark, thus 

 loosening the latter, and filling it with an ugly 

 yellow powder. I have observed, in my own 



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