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By the time you come back to the 

 first stone of your walling you will find 

 it has settled, and may perhaps, here and 

 there, require a little fettling in odd places 

 before you begin to raise your second 

 story. You must follow the same specifi- 

 cation in your third or fourth course of 

 binder, if your foundation is wide enough 

 and strong enough to bear it, and your 

 wall's intended height should require it. 

 When the wall has been raised to its proper 

 height to receive the coping-stones, let it 

 be prepared suitably with some smooth and 

 flat bedded stones, on which your under 

 coping-stones are to rest, which should 

 project three or four inches in front of the 

 wall below and the coping-stone above, and 

 upon these lay your coping-stones in good 

 tempered mortar. Lime-ashes I never used, 

 and, now lime is less than half the price 

 it has been in my time, I should not recom* 

 mend its use in this case. The coping- 

 stones should be flat-bedded on the under- 



