The only tools the soldier had to work with were his axe and saw. He had no nails and no iron of any sort, just the trunks of trees to cut into the desired lengths and a little mud and straw.[25] Each hut was fourteen by sixteen feet, with log sides six and one-half feet high. The logs were notched on the ends and fitted together in a dovetailing fashion. The spaces between the logs being made airtight with clay and straw. The roof was a single sharp slope that would shed the snow and rain easily, made of timbers and covered with hewn slabs and straw. There might be boards for the floor, but often there was not even a board to use for that purpose and just dirt served instead. Each hut inhabited by privates had one window and one door, the officers quarters usually had two windows. The windows and doors were formed by sawing out a portion of the logs the proper size and putting the part sawed out on wooden hinges or sometimes in the case of windows the hole was covered with oiled paper to let in light. The door was in one end and at the opposite end a chimney was built, built in a manner similar to the hut itself except that it was made of the smaller timbers and that both the inner and outer sides were covered with a clay plaster to protect the wood from the fire.[26] The huts were in one room usually, except the officers and theirs were divided into two apartments with a kitchen in the rear. Each such hut was occupied by three or four under officers, the generals had either their own private hut or else lived in a private house near the camp.[27] In the same poem as mentioned above written by Dr. Waldo is a description of the building and furnishing of a hut which warrants repeating. My humble hut demands a right To have its matter, birth and site Described first! of ponderous logs Whose bulk disdains the winds or fogs The sides and ends are fitly raised And by dove-tail each corner's brac'd; Athwart the roof, young saplings lie Which fire and smoke has now made dry— Next straw wraps o'er the tender pale, Next earth, then splints o'erlay the whole; Although it leaks when showers are o'er It did not leak two hours before, Two chimneys placed at opposite angles Keep smoke from causing oaths and wrangles, * * * * *