Begin binding them together as shown in [Fig. 51]. Then carry the raffia (string will do if you cannot get raffia) over and between the two ends of the sticks ([Fig. 52]), and wind it opposite ways several times around the sticks, bringing the raffia between as well as over them. This will lash them firmly together. Now turn this beginning of your floor around so that the short stick will be upright and the long one extend from side to side. Do not let the binding loosen; hold it tight and cross the long stick with one of the split five-inch sticks ([Fig. 53]). Be sure that the flat side of the split stick is next to the long stick, and that you leave a slight opening between it and the first crosspiece. Pull the raffia tight and bind it over this second crosspiece ([Fig. 54]), then back, crossing it as in [Fig. 55].
Fig.53 - Turn the sticks, bringing J in horizontal position.
Fig.54 - Bind raffia over second stick.
Fig.55 - Then bring raffia across front of second stick
Bind on the next split crosspiece in the same way, and go on adding crosspieces until they reach almost to the end of the long stick, then let the last crosspiece be the second unsplit five-inch stick. When all the short crosspieces are properly bound onto the long stick, bind the other six-and-a-half-inch long stick under the opposite ends of the crosspieces in the same way, and just as carefully ([Fig. 56]). This makes the floor and we must lash it to the stilts, which are four upright sticks, each seven and one half inches long. Fit the stilts in the outside corners made by the crossing of the end and side sticks of the floor, and, holding the floor about four and a half inches above the lower ends of the stilts, bind floor and stilts together ([Fig. 57]). Of course you can put the stilts on only one at a time.
The Walls
Make the framework for the walls by binding and tying onto the stilts near the top two sticks, each six and a half inches long, one stick on each side. Across these sticks, from stilt to stilt, at each end, bind a five-inch-length stick ([Fig. 58]).
Fig.56 - Make the floor this way.