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with a Copy of the Letters Patent. 
These are, — 
1st, The employment of screws, which pass through 
the posts, and deep into the rail, to penetrate the nut ; to- 
gether with the interior mortice in the post for the recep- 
tion of the tenon cut on the rail. The screws are gene- 
rally badly made of defective iron; and the heads are so 
soft, as to be speedily worn down by the action of the 
screw driver ; and, by the misplacement of the screw, the 
nut is often loosened, and rendered of little importance 
to the firmness of the parts connected. 
^nd, From the above sources, as well as from the 
usual roughness in the finish of the holes, the mortices, 
and the tenons; the bed bug, as above mentioned, readi- 
ly makes a lodgment ; which leads, of consequence, to 
the frequent use of hot water, lye, corrosive sublimate, 
and other domestic applications, too often, alas, incom- 
petent to their complete destruction ! 
3rd, By such frequent ablutions, the parts are injured 
by swelling, the nuts are rusted, and the bedstead is of- 
ten more closely kept together by the tightness of the 
sacking, than by the screws, &c. intended for this pur- 
pose. 
4th, The head-board is now fixed firmly in the posts, 
and for its removal the complete separation of the bed- 
stead becomes necessary. The difficulty of this, and of 
replacing the parts accurately, except to a professed 
joiner, will be admitted ; especially as it is generally left 
to a careless and inexperienced domestic, to the almost 
necessary destruction of the bedstead in a short time. 
By the plan I am about to describe, many, if not all, of 
the above difficulties are obviated, since the most stupid 
and inexperienced can scarcely fail of taking a bedstead 
apart and replacing it, as accurately as the best work- 
man. 
The post and rails are here completely solid, — no 
holes, no screws or nuts, no tenons or mortices, are 
