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English: From the original book: "Great care is taken to secure wood that matches in grain and color; and this can be done only by getting material that has come from the same log. In the lumber yard one notices boards of uniform lengths tied up in bundles, — in fact tied up in precisely the same position that the wood occupied in the trunk before it was sawed into boards (fig. 18). So with other wood material, — the pieces are kept together in the same manner. One never sees in a lumber-yard a promiscuous pile of boards, but each log having been cut into boards is securely tied without displacement."