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the nails can easily be drawn upon reaching home. Each 

 pile has a lath vertically, across the top laths, are braced 

 in both directions, so that the whole load is practically 

 one solid pile (Fig. 64). As the load comes mainly on 



Fig. 68.— Pile of Stories. 



the hind axle, 40 supers are as many as we like to haul 

 at one load. We seldom take so large a load. 



As I have said, putting the load on the wagon at the 

 close of the season is something of a ticklish job, and is 

 mostly done under cover of smoke, my assistant playing 

 the smoker wherever it will do the most good. The 



