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arranged so it was just as easy to care for things as not to, and 

 that is just where we now are. In pursuance of this plan, we first 

 built a tool and carriage house. I wanted these things in a build- 

 ing by themselves, where they could be kept clean. And I wanted 

 it handy. No more moving out ten things to get one. And I 

 wanted it so I could put things up or get them out alone. I had 

 tried the hard way first. How glad am I that I did not build 

 before I had experience and knew just what I wanted. Here is 

 the plan of this building. You see, it is long and narrow like my 

 old stable, but the doors are on the side. And the entire side is 

 door, for that matter. The letter x is placed where each door is. 

 The building is 22 x 56 feet. This just answers our purpose, 

 protects everything and no waste room. When our things are 

 piled in here they are very snug and compact. A little 

 more room would not be unhandy, say ten feet longer, but I was 

 ashamed to build any larger on a fifty-acre farm. This building 

 has twelve-foot posts (see picture engraved from photograph in 



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Ground Plan of Tool House. 



next chapter) , a third pitch roof and a second floor over the spaces 

 a, d, c, d and e to give storage overhead. You will notice the 

 stairway -at s. This floor is about seven feet above the ground 

 floor, except over <?, where it is raised a little higher, so as to 

 take in any top carriage below. There is no floor over /. The 

 doors at each end of/, are nearly twelve feet high, so you can 

 drive through with a load of hay or any other high, bulky load ;/ 

 is a gangway to the covered yard in the rear. The spaces a, b,c, 

 d and e have only doors in front for storage of buggies and tools. 

 In front are seven posts set on stones and held in place by iron 

 dowels. We simply bored an inch hole in the bottom of the post 

 and drove in a piece of inch iron rod, say six inches, leaving it 

 projecting two inches. Then drilled an inch hole in the stone 

 two inches deep and raised the post and put dowel in place. The 

 stones only come just above the surface, so they are not in the way. 

 Then between these posts are doors, a pair to each space. The 



