A cheap and effective water supply can be gotten from a driven well, which in most places costs about one dollar per foot.  Have it where the kitchen is to be, so that the water can be pumped into a barrel or other tank over the stove.  With a good range you can have as good a supply of hot and cold water as you had in the city.

If so fortunate as to find a piece of land with a good spring on it, you can lay pipes and draw the water from that.  If you can get twelve or fifteen feet fall from the spring to the kitchen, you don’t need a pump at all.

For a toilet closet, build a shed four feet wide, six feet long, and eight feet high.  Use a movable pail or box.  Lime slaked or unslaked or dry dust or ashes must be scattered every time the closet is used.  Always clean before it shows signs of becoming offensive:  keep it covered fly tight and mix the contents with earth or litter, and scatter on the garden.

A shack can be built of logs which will do for comfort and will look dignified.

Horace L. Pike, in_ Country Life in America, says:  “The lot on which we meant to build our log house stood thirty-five feet above the lake.  The problem was how to build a cabin roomy, picturesque, inexpensive, and all on the ground.

“The ground dimensions are thirty-two by thirty feet outside.  This gives a living room sixteen by fourteen; bedrooms twelve by twelve, twelve by ten, and nine by seven; kitchen eleven by nine; a five-by four-foot corner for a pantry and refrigerator; closet four by six, front porch sixteen by six feet six inches, and rear porch five by five—­705 square feet of inside floor space and 130 square feet of porch.

“A dozen pine trees stand on the lot, and maneuvering was required to set a cottage among them without the crime of cutting one.  The front received the salutes of a leaning oak, the life of which was saved by the sacrifice of six inches from the porch eaves, the trunk forming a newel post for the step railing.

“We closed the contract immediately for 120 Norway or red pine logs, thirty feet long and eight by ten inches diameter at butts.  The price was low—­one or two dollars their like should have brought.  We used, however, only eighty-one logs; forty thirty-foot, fourteen eighteen-foot, thirteen sixteen-foot, and fourteen fourteen-foot.

“Work was begun on April 22.  Two days sufficed for the owner and one man to clear and level the ground, dig post holes, set posts, and square the foundation.  The soil was light sand with a clay hardpan three feet down.

“Twenty-seven days each were put in by two men from start to finish, with assistance rendered by the owner.  There were seven days by the mason, eight by carpenters, and four teen and one half by other labor.  On June 4 the cabin was ready for occupancy, and the family moved in.  The prices, as in most cases cited, are higher to-day.  Cheaper transportation or lower tariff may reduce them again.