cond set outside pulls
together the two selvages of the centre breadths. Do not slight this
work: a half-closed door, short tapes, and a door-flap that is slapping
all the time, are things that will annoy you beyond endurance.

The upright poles of a tent such as has been described should be an inch
or two more than seven feet, for the cloth will stretch. If you have a
sod-cloth, the poles should be longer still.[18]

THE WALL-TENT.

The wall-tent is shaped like a house: the walls or sides, which are
perpendicular, are four feet high. A continuous piece of cloth runs from
the ground to the eaves, thence on toward the ridgepole, and down the
other side to the ground. The tent is made on the same general
principles as the one last described. It is four breadths square, but
the width is usually diminished about one foot by cutting six inches
from each corner breadth. If the cloth is drilling or light duck, you
can overlap the centre breadths a foot, and thus have the doors
ready-made.

Draw a plan upon the floor as in the other case; the pole nine feet and
two inches high, the corners four breadths apart less the overlappings
and the narrowing; draw the wall (in the plan only) four feet and two
inches high. The roof-line runs of course from the top of the pole to
the top of the wall.

Cut the cloth, as before, so as to have the twilled side out. Add six
inches to the distance measured on the plan, for the length of the walls
and roof, so as to get cloth for the eaves.

The wall is to be four feet high; consequently, when you have sewed
together the four breadths that make the roof and walls, measure four
feet 3-1/2 inches from the ends (bottoms), double the cloth, and sew
two rows of stitching by hand across from side to side, 1-1/2 inches
from the doubling; this makes the tabling for the eaves, and you have
two inches left for the bottom tabling. Use stout twine for these seams
at the eaves, and take only three to four stitches to the inch.

Take the same care as before in sewing together the ends and sides; the
larger the tent, the more this difficulty increases.

The sod-cloth becomes more of a necessity as we increase the size of the
tent, and add to the difficulty of making it fit snugly to the ground.

Facings should be put in where the ends of the poles bear, as before
explained; and also in the four upper corners of the wall, to prevent
the strain of the corner guy-lines from ripping apart the eaves and