The canvas was then sewed together along these edges.
Tie strings were sewed to the inner edge of the annex and corresponding
ones were attached to the main tent a little ways back from the edge, so
that the two could be tied together, with the annex lapping well over on
the roof and side walls. A notch was cut out of the peak of the annex, so
that it could be tied around the rear post of the tent, and notches were
cut at the top of the side walls to permit passing the cloth around the
wall ropes. Instead of supporting the ridge of the annex on a ridge pole,
we used the rear guy line of the tent, propping it up with a scantling
about 5-1/2 feet long.
CHAPTER V.
PREPARING FOR THE EXPEDITION.
School closed on the 21st of June that year, just ten days before the
expected arrival of Uncle Ed. The first thing we did was to set up our
tent in the back yard and camp out so as to become acclimatized. It is
good that we did this, for the very first night a heavy summer shower came
up which nearly drenched us. The water beat right through the thin canvas
roof of our tent. Had we been able to afford the best quality of canvas
duck, such an occurrence would probably have been avoided. But we solved
the difficulty by using a tent fly; that is, a strip of canvas stretched
over the tent and spaced a short distance from it to break the fall of the
rain drops.
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