Thus I got a hold for my evener.

That done, I chopped and hewed an arch to cross the middle of the runners and hold them apart and used all my nails to secure and brace it.

I got the two boards which were fastened together and constituted my wagon seat and laid them over the arch and front brace.
How to make them fast was my worst problem.

I succeeded in splitting a green stick to hold the bolt of the evener just under its head while I heated its lower end in the fire and kept its head cool with snow.

With this I burnt a hole in the end of each board and fastened them to the front brace with withes of moosewood.
It was late in the day and there was no time for the slow process of burning more holes, so I notched the other ends of the boards and lashed them to the rear brace with a length of my reins.