The Roof
To support the roof there must be two upright sticks, each seven inches long, and these sticks must be bound and tied to the middle of the end sticks of the floor and the end sticks of the wall. They are lettered L and L in [Fig. 59]
Fig.57 - Lash the floor to the stilts.
Fig.58 - Bind on four more poles making framework for walls.
[Fig. 60] shows the framework of the house without the bindings, so that you may see exactly how the sticks are put together. There is a ridge-pole which forms the top ridge of the roof. This must be a stick about seven inches long, and it is to be tied to the uprights lettered L and L that you have just fastened on the two ends of the house. (See [Fig. 59], L and L.) Four other sticks, M and M and N and N, long enough to reach from the ridge-pole, crossing above it, to the side crosspieces of the wall, you must tie to the ridge-pole and the side-wall sticks, placing them slanting, as you see them in [Fig. 60], at each end.