STOEE BUILDING. 
very innocent thing to pick up and carry away what 
was of no use to any one, and of great use to the 
coolies in lighting their fires. Fancy coolies cutting 
up for firewood timber that had cost 18s. or 20s. per 
100 feet to saw, besides, in most cases, the great cost 
of transporting it from the saw-pit to the shed ! 
As in a previous chapter we have written on the want 
of estimates in cultivating an estate, and the evils 
resulting from the system ; in like manner, although 
on a smaller scale, were the losses arising fuom want 
of all calculation in the preparation of timber. It 
was just the same with masonry ; the pillars would 
be ordered to a certain height, then the master would 
change his^ mind, and order them a foot lower, or 
higher ; this on a casual glance, would seem no great 
extra trouble or expense, but what did it involve? 
Why, just that the whole calculations of length of 
timber were wrong, and that all of the raftei-s, beam 
or joints were either too long or too short. If a 
plan of a building is once made, stick to it, if pos- 
sible. Once commence any change you know not 
where it may end. 
CHAPTEE XXII. 
Store Erection, like Bungalow Building, a Work 
OP Disappointment and Delay. 
Having in the last chapter given some rambling re- 
collections of the troubles attending the erection of a 
bungalow, I may add it was just the same in putting 
up stores and pulping-houses, no matter what calcu- 
lations the master might make. He might commence 
operations, apparently, with abundance of time before 
him, quite sure that everything would be complete 
before crop commenced, but, if anything was certain 
on the subject, the certainty was, or rather proved to 
be, that be was most certainly wrong. We would ap- 
peal to some of our old planting friends of those times. 
We would put the question, “Did anyone, during 
the lengthened period of any practical experience, 
over know a store and pulping-house to be thoroughly 
completed in time for crop ?” We will even go much 
further than this, “Completely finished, so that no 
carpenter or mason was required to finish off any of 
the works, in time for receiving a second crop ? “ There 
was always something to do, or what was more 
probable, something to be undone, and done over 
again* Many readers will doubtless recollect, how, 
when crop began to come in, artificers were discharged 
with the understanding that the work was to be 
reiSumed after the coffee was gathered and despatched. 
