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but not in the open country. They cannot
be made except where there is a great plenty
of trees. And then, after a short time, the
branches get dry and brittle; and then the
fence is easily broken through, and it is very
combustible, and burns furiously if a fire
happens to get into it from fires in the
woods. Still, it is very commonly the way
that they make the first fences in the woods
on new farms.

“"The next kind of fence is a log fence.
This is ‘made of logs one over the other, and
is very solid and durable.’

‘How do they keep the logs up?” said
Rollo.

“Tn a curious way,” said Mr. Holiday.
“They first put one very large log down
upon the ground, in the direction of the
fence they are going to make. Then they
put down another, beyond, reaching still
farther on, where the fence is going to be.
But these logs are not placed exactly end to
end, but the ends lap by one another a little,
so that a short log may be placed across
from one to the other. So all the ground
logs have a short log passing across the ends
where they come together and the second