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waste ; besides this will be needed some inch-square stuff to 

 serve as framing at each corner, and along top and bottom 

 of the front. To these pieces the boards are nailed, and we 

 have made three coops complete in an afternoon. Each 

 side takes two boards two feet long, and a half board cut 

 diagonally ; the back, two boards. The top requires three 

 boards, each one-fifth of a plank, with slats cut from the 



Fig. 14. Shelter-coop. 



same length over the joins ; and the fifth piece is used in 

 front as shown. The front may be either wires inserted 

 into the top and bottom rails, as shown, or be made of laths 

 nailed on. 



This roof, when nailed on, thus projects an inch and a 

 half all round th3 coop ; but besides this there is a loose 

 shelter-board hinged to the front of the roof, so as to be 

 capable of detachment. This is easily done by driving two 

 small staples into the under side of the roof, into which lock 

 small hooks driven into the edge of the board. In a coop 



