The roof had had most of the tiles blown off, and underneath them the roofing-boards had been shattered into long narrow strips.

The machine was driven into a side street in front of a metal roofing factory, the tank taken out and so thoroughly repaired it gave no further trouble.

Another excellent feature in the old New-England farm-houses is the long slope of the roof behind, and, in general, the habit of roofing porches, dormers, sheds, and other projections by continuing the main roof over them, with great gain to breadth and solidity of effect.

Equally interesting and very puzzling were half a dozen crude Spanish roofing tiles, baked red.