. The story of agriculture in the United States. he broad hearth was eitherstone or hardened clay. The chinks in the cabin wallswere filled first by strips of wood driven in between thelogs where there were gaps, and then by being plasteredwith clay. Later, perhaps, the settler could afford tofasten clapboards by means of pegs on the inside walls ofhis cabin. The ground might serve for a floor, but in the bettercabins small logs were smoothed on one or both sides andlaid close together to form apuncheon floor. For ceiling,saplings were run across fromone wall to the other, and uponthese clapbo
. The story of agriculture in the United States. he broad hearth was eitherstone or hardened clay. The chinks in the cabin wallswere filled first by strips of wood driven in between thelogs where there were gaps, and then by being plasteredwith clay. Later, perhaps, the settler could afford tofasten clapboards by means of pegs on the inside walls ofhis cabin. The ground might serve for a floor, but in the bettercabins small logs were smoothed on one or both sides andlaid close together to form apuncheon floor. For ceiling,saplings were run across fromone wall to the other, and uponthese clapboards were laid, over-lapping each other. A series of _ ^ . ^ ^^ ^ . The Bed in a Log Cabin pegs driven into the side wall was the ladder by which boys climbed to the loft at night. The family bed was made by driving a post into the ground near one corner of the cabin. From holes in this, poles were extended to the wafls in both directions; across them was laid a platform of boards upon which a mattress of corn husks or a feather bed was
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