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or even three. This will take about sixty slabs, which, with free-running 
timber, you can easily run out in a day. Twenty sheets of bark will roof it, 
and with plenty of good timber, twenty sheets of bark only take half-a-day to 
strip. Flatten out the bark, after scorching the inside to keep it from 
splitting, and weight the pile with a few logs. It will have seasoned sufficiently 
by the time you are ready for it. When stripping bark, if you find it clings 
to the tree, set up a fire all around it for ten minutes. I1¢ will then come off 
freely. Put in four stout corner posts and two intermediate ones. Put on 
wallplates dressed on two sides with the adze, and to these nail the slabs, which 
may be sunk 6 inches into the ground. A ridge pole and a few rafters complete 
the frame. Nail on some saplings longitudinally for battens, to which fasten 
the bark with greenhide and toggles. Never nail bark on, for as the bark shrinks 
the nails will draw through. For windows, do as I did—make shutters. They 
are quite good enough for a beginner, and remember that you will want all 
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your money for the farm and dairy work ; so don’t go to the expense of a 
boarded floor. An earthen floor soon tramps down hard, and the house can be 
swept out and kept clean as well as if boards were laid down. If you like to 
build a bush chimney you can do so, as it will not cost much, being built of 
bark and saplings. Make it at least 6 feet wide and from 4 to 6 feet deep. 
The accompanying figure will show you how to build it. The eave of the 
