| Summary: | funnel but even this hut is good , compared with some of the summer tilts, which are constructed to carry on the fishery in the little harbours and coves, where, very often, a huge boulder or projecting rock forms the gable, or actual rere-dosse, as our ancestors called the only chimney, or substitute for a chimney, and from this chimney-rock, a few slight poles built up erect in an oblong form, with a pole-roof sloping against a bank, or rock, the whole covered with bark, when it can be had, which is seldom, or with turf; and with turf piled up against the side walls, without a window, and with only an apology for a door; and the whole interior scarcely affording standing room; . the smoke escaping always from an old barrel, or a square funnel of boards placed over the fire. See cited quotation PRINTED ITEM W. J. KIRWIN SEP 2 1969 [-]summer tilts[-] Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Used I [see 'tilt' etc.] Only the very last sentence of the cited quotation on this card exists in the DNE. It is listed under this source information
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