Show A dugout alom la th into the face of on of the low vertical earth falln of th broken land the homemaker cut a hole aa a yankee tanner digs a cellar for a hillside bara though rarely larger 14 feet on the bottom these holes aro sometimes 13 by 18 with the depth of the hole as much as 5 or G feet aad ome times 18 by 15 large with the loaf way of th hole lying along tha front of the natural earth wall 4 tha digging completed trees are to furnish lugs for building up the front of the home and for nse aa rafters placed a foot or BO apart over the top the limbs of the trees with some long grass from a coiet place if any can be found are used to make ft rude thatch over the rafters and then aads out and carefully saved when the hoi was dug are placed on top of the thatch while the earth from he hoi is heaped on top of all into a grave shaped A blanket to hang in the doorway or the cotton from the wagon will berye and there ii the dugout home as cozy aa the home of a prairie dog or a woodchuck B spears in scribners Scrib nera |