Two
upright stakes are driven firmly into the ground, with a ridge pole
placed in position along the tops. Against this a number of poles
should be made to lean from the windward aide, with cross-bars to
support the branches, reeds, sods, or twigs, or whatever is to form
your roofing material.
For a single man this shelter can be made quite small, _i.e._,
about 3 ft. high in front, and 3 ft. wide and 6 ft. long.
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FRAMEWORK.
You build your fire about 4 ft. in front of this, and lie in it
alongside your fire.
If the "shack" is for more than one man, you build it 5 ft. or 6 ft.
high in front, and 5 ft. deep, so that several fellows can lie
alongside each other, feet to the fire.
When you start to thatch your framework, begin at the bottom and lay
your roofing material on in layers, one above the other in the way
that slates are put on a roof. In this way you may make it watertight.
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THATCHING.
For thatching you can use thick spruce branches, or grass, reeds,
sods, slabs of wood or bark (called "shingles"), or small twigs of
heather closely woven in.
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