 The hatching-house was built at the side of the cottage, and was a kind of long shed with mud walls, and thickly thatched with straw. Along -the ends and down one side of the building are a number of round straw baskets, well plastered with mud to prevent...  Putnam's Home Cyclopedia ... - Page 260by G.P. Putnam & Co - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Voyages and travels - 1846 - 460 pages
...built at the side of the cottage, and in a kind of long shed, with mud walls, and thickly-thatched with straw. Along the ends and down one side of the...bottom of each basket there is a tile placed, or rather that the tile forms the bottom of the basket ; upon this the fire acts, — a .small fire-place being... | |
 | 1847 - 560 pages
...the pencil of Cruikshank. The hatching-house was built at the side of the cottage, and was a kind of long shed with mud walls, and thickly thatched with...forms the bottom of the basket; upon this the fire acts,—a small fire-place being below each basket. Upon the top of each basket there is a straw cover,... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 436 pages
...built at the side of the eottage, and was a kind of long shed, with mud walls, and thiekly thatehed with straw. Along the ends and down one side of the building are a number of round straw haskets, well plastered with mud, to prevent them from taking fire. In the bottom of eaeh hasket there... | |
 | Allotment of land - 1849 - 722 pages
...CHINESE MODE OF HATCHING EGGS. THE hatching-house was built at the side of the cottage, and was a kind of long shed with mud walls, and thickly thatched with...down one side of the building are a number of round straw-baskets, well plastered with mud to prevent them from taking fire. In the bottom of each basket... | |
 | REV. CHARLES BULLOCK - 1865 - 700 pages
...Cruikshank. "The hatching-house was built at the side of U» cottage, and was a kind of long shed, with oud walls, and thickly thatched with straw. Along the ends and down one side of the build">g are a number of round straw baskets, well plsstered with mud, to prevent them from Wong fire.... | |
 | 1873 - 414 pages
...pencil of an English artist. The hatching-house was built at the end of the cottage, and was a kind of long shed, with mud walls and thickly thatched with straw. Along the ends and down one side of the buildings are a number of round straw baskets, well plastered with mud, to prevent them from taking... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Manufactures - Consular reports - 1893 - 626 pages
...primitive. The hatching house is usually a long shed built of bamboo, the walls plastered with mud and thickly thatched with straw. Along the ends and...of the building are a number of round straw baskets plastered with mud to prevent them from taking fire. A tile forms the bottom of each basket. Upon this... | |
 | 1847 - 440 pages
...the pencil of Cruikshank. The hatching-house was built at the side of the cottage, and was a kind of long shed, with mud walls, and thickly thatched with...baskets, well plastered with mud, to prevent them frcm taking fire. In the bottom of each basket there is a tile placed, or rather the tile forms the... | |
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