tes for the
Kanuck, the writer enlisted the interest of a fellow member of the
Camp-Fire Club of America, Doctor Alexander Lambert, and through him
secured the names of all parts of the Canadian shack.

The author is not a French-Canadian, and, although, like most of his
readers, he studied French at school, what he learned of that great
language is now securely locked up in one of the safe-deposit vaults of
his brain and the key lost.

He owns up to his ignorance because he is a scout and would not try to
deceive his readers, also because if the reader's knowledge of French
enables him to find some error, the writer can sidestep the mistake and
say, "'Tain't mine." But, joking aside, these names are the ones used in
the Province of Quebec and are here given not because they are good French
but because they are the names used by the builders among the natives
known by the Indians as _les habitants_

Local Names of Parts of Cabin

spruce epinette
balsam sapin
to chop boucher, Figs. 113 and 122
to cut couper
logs les bois or les billots, _A_, _A_, _A_,
Figs. 242, 245, also 119, 126, etc.
square carre
door porte, Figs. 242, 243
window chassis, Fig. 243
window-glass les vitres, 242
the joist on which the floor is
laid les traverses, Fig. 49, _B_, _B_, _B_,
_B_, Fig. 244
the floor itself plancher
the purlins, that is, the two big
logs used to support the roof les poudres, _C_, _C_, Fig. 244
the roof couverture, Fig. 242
bark ecorce
birch bark bouleau
the poles put on a birch-bark
roof to keep the bark flat les peches, Figs. 41, 234, 242
the hollow half-logs sometimes
used like tiling on a roof les auges, Fig. 246
piazza, porch, front stoop,
veranda galerie, Figs. 236, 237, and 241

The only thing that needs explanation is the squaring of the round logs of
the cabin. For instance, instead of leaving the logs absolutely round and
untouched inside the camp, after the logs are placed, they are squared