The room into which I was looking was lighted only by the rays which filtered between the slats of a closed shutter.

It was about four by six inches, with slanting slats.

"When I heard the guy in the knee breeches coming up the stairs I just dove for the slats and played I was asleep.

In another apartment they were making fence-slats, such as stand all over New England, out of odds and ends,and it may be that I saw where the picket-fence behind which I dwell at home came from.

A tiny sunbeam crept between the slats and fell on the carpet.

We filled sea-chests, the rubber crowns of a couple of old sou'westers, and dumped water through the slats of the tiers of bunks so that it lodged in the angle between the side of the ship and the deck.

The houses along the road were not for the most part neatly kept; the garden-fences were poorly built of laths or long slats, and very rarely of trim aspect.

They used no slats in them days.

It was about six feet long and made of four heavy slats nailed on a framework.

It didn't have no slats like beds do now.

Then it was holes hewed in the wall on the other three sides and wooden slats across it.

The head board a little higher than the one at the foot but instead of using slats across from the railings it was mortised together and hemp ropes wove bout a inch apart.

Wheat was ground into flour and corn into meal in mills with stone burrs similar to those used in the rural districts today, and power for this operation was obtained through the use of a treadmill that was given its motion by horses or mules walking on an inclined, endless belt constructed of heavy wooden slats.

The fourth was our Canadian canoe, a beauty; light, safe, roomy, made of thin slats of wood and cement-covered canvas.

There was an old ash hopper, made of slats, put together at the bottom and wide at the top.

I discovered my fingers grasping some narrow wooden slats, held up firmly against the back of the vehicle by a chain at each end.

It was narrow, and I felt some question as to the strength of the supports, but risking all this, managed to work my way up until I half lay, half crouched, along the slats, holding on grimly as the two wheels bounced briskly from side to side, threatening to send me sprawling out into the road.

We reached the last fort on our round before I saw anything interesting; and here a sorrowful woman drew me aside to tell me of the two weeks she had spent with her husband, now in the last stage of camp-fever, and of her fruitless efforts to get sufficient straw for his bed, while the bones were cutting through the skin as he lay on the slats of his cot.

Her distress was so real, and she was so real in her desire to do good, that I felt myself quite a culprit, especially as the man got no bed, and died on his slats.

But as soon as we got this off, and before we could begin on the dishpan chorus, Honeybunch came at us with a couple of bed-slats and cleaned us all out.

A quarter of a mile beyond the church in a field on the right are the "fairy slats."

The precipitous nature of the ground on the S. side forms a natural defence and accounts for the incompleteness of the rampart The "slats" are merely slight slits in the ground caused by the slipping of the unsupported strata.

He recalls when wooden slats and tightened ropes were used for bed springs; also the patience of "Aunt Letha" an old woman slave who took care of the children in the neighborhood while their parents worked, and how they enjoyed watching "Uncle Umphrey" tan cow and pig hides.

They were used for the mattresses that rested on the beds of wooden slats that were built in corners against the walls.

"Well?" he asked as, having passed the Success to Commerce through, he went back to open the lower paddlesor slats, as he called them.