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CABIN BUlLDirsG 245sag when cut through. Remove one handle fromyour crosscut saw, push the blade through the cutthat you made when building the wall, attach handleagain, and saw out. Snap a chalk-line along thelog that comes directly over the doorway, and chiselout a section three or four inches deep for top ofdoor frame to be nailed to. Spike the jambs toends of abutting logs. Fit in a washboard beveled•onboth sides.The door should swing inward ; otherwise, if thecabin is occupied in winter, you may find your egressblocked by a snow-drift.If you can bring in a screen door, by all mean?do so. In such case you may as well bring also &ready-made door and casing. If means of transportationdo not permit this, then make a simplebatten door. Use wrought nails, as they can beclinched more neatly and firmly than wire ones.To hang a door: Place it exactly in position(shut) with bottom and sides wedged to giveproper clearance. Set the top hinge so that its pinis just in line with crack between door and jamb,and nail it; so also with the lower one. Fit thelock, or make a wooden latch and attach hasp andpadlock.The windows, being only single sashes, may behinged to their casings, like the door, or fitted onslides (Fig. 78). Shutters should be provided toclose the openin2;s when the cabin is left unoccupied.They may be fitted to bolt from the inside.There may well be a third window in our design,alongside the door and over the washstand. If akitchen is added, the rear window space will besawed down for a doorway.Chimney.—Saw out of the end wall a space forthe chimney, just as you did for the doorway. Theopening between wing walls of fireplace shouldbe about 4 feet wide, 18 inches deep, and 3 feethigh. The sides of fireplaces often are built nar»