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170 FENCES.

where there is a great plenty of trees and
tall bushes. They have nothing to buy to
make it with, and need no tools but an axe.
A couple of men, with axes, g0 out into the
woods, and cut down small, bushy trees, and
lay them along upon the ground, the top of
one over the butt of the other; and the
branches make a kind of barricade five or
six feet high, that the cattle cannot get over.
If, in any place, the branches are not thick
enough, or high enough, they put other
smaller bushes on, and if necessary they
keep them up by cross-stakes driven into the
ground.”

“How?” said Rollo.

“Why, they drive two stakes into the
sround, so that the upper parts cross each
other like the letter X, and then the butt
end of the bush rests in the crotch. So you
see they only need axes to sharpen the
stakes, and to cut down the trees. They
generally have a yoke of oxen to haul the
trees to their places in the fence.”

“T never saw such a fence as that,” said
Rollo.

“] should like to see one,” said Lucy.

“They are very common in the woods,