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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 253 three inches on the sides. There are seven intermediate posts, and three posts in the partition, each of which is three inches and a half on one side, and two inches and a quarter on the other. There are five joists, each five inches by two inches, which are joggled on to the sleepers and to the bottom plate, as shown in fig. 448 (to a scale of r>A1^-.VVi 44S ail inch and a quarter to a foot), in which k is the sleeper ; I, the bottom plate ; and m, the joist. The posts are grooved on the sides, and so are the top and bottom plates, for the purpose of receiving in the grooves the ends of the paneled frames. When the cottage is putting together, the paneled frames, fig. 449 (to a scale of an inch and five eighths to three feet), are put in between the grooved posts. Two of these panels are in part glazed, and hinged to a hanging style, which fits into the upright groove ; thus form- ing at once all the doors and windows required. The panels being all fixed, a set of top plates is put on, similar in dimension to the bottom plates, and similarly grooved to receive the top rails of the paneled frames ; and these are held together by iron screw- bolts at the corners, made fast by a bed-wrench applied on the upper side of the plates. On these top plates (which, in a common building, would be called the wall plates) are placed the rafters, seven feet six inches long, and four inches by one inch and a half