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3 rafters & posts, & as soon as I hear will let you know. See the rafters, posts & strings were [[?peeled]], but not the [[?willows]] or the slabs - the bark side as the out side, the split side the inside. The rafters do not project as eaves. I note the difficulty you mention of "leaning in" the slabs. I dont think they did, & I think you had better make them straight. As to the brace, it is the slab and the pressure of the earth on the slab. I see this difficulty, and I wonder if I had not better write Rosalie today asking the question. Francis declares there was no crotched pole to match the pole holding the stringer & [[strikethrough]] acting [[/strikethrough]] too act as a brace, but it seems to me there must have been. I cant see how it was otherwise. I remember that the old woman said "these" (the outer [[?end]] of posts) were set