In 1789' the year that Congress passed its first law. the settlers on the U. S. frontier, instead of hiring contractors to build their houses, used to invite neighbors from miles around to do the job. At
a grand party enlivened by song and dance and barrels of whiskey, the brawn of many arms rolled new-cut logs to the centre of a clearing and piled them up to make a cabin. The first law passed by Congress was, it happened, a tariff bill. Since then methods of home construction A dunner was...
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