I made it on the bevel.

1. There is a deeper surface for the nails to grip.

2. There is twice the gripping-surface to each seam.

3. The water will have to seep into it on a slant. Water moves easiest up and down or straight across.

4. In a house people are upright 1/3 <[illegible]> more than they are lying down, so the seams and joints can be made
<square> up-and down because the stress is up and down.

<5. In a coffin the body is lying down, so the seams and joints should be made on the bevel because a body
is not square like a crosstie crossways, because the stress>

<6. The animal magnetism of a dead body – Except a body>

5. In a bed or where people lie down all the time the joints and seams <[illegible]> are made sideways because
the stress is sideways.

6. Except

7. (1) A body is not square like a cross-tie.

8. (2) Animal magnetism.

9. The animal magnetism of a dead body makes the stress come slanting so the seams and joints of a
coffin should be on the bevel.

10. You can see by an old grave that the earth sinks into it on the bevel.

11. While in a natural hole it sinks by the middle, the stress being up and down.

<<12. It > 12>

12. <I made it on the bevel> So I made it on the bevel.

13. It makes a neater job.