1IMADE it on the bevel.

21. There is more surface for the nails to grip.

32. There is twice the gripping-surface to each seam.

43. The water will have to seep into it on a slant. Water moves easiest up and down or straight across.

54. In a house people are upright two-thirds of the time. So the seams and joints are made up-and-down. Because the stress is up-and-down.

65. In a bed where people lie down all the time, the joints and seams are made sideways, because the stress is sideways.

76. Except.

87. A body is not square like a cross-tie.

98. Animal magnetism.

109. The animal magnetism of a dead body makes the stress come slanting, so the seams and joints of a coffin are made on the bevel.

1110. You can see by an old grave that the earth sinks down on the bevel.

1211. While in a natural hole it sinks by the centre, the stress being up-and-down.

1312. So I made it on the bevel.

1413. It makes a neater job.