It's Saturday.

That made the door. It was a good oak door, solid and strong. For the hinges he cut three long straps. One hinge was to be near the top of the door, one near the bottom, and one in the middle. He fastened them first to the door, in this way: He laid a little piece of wood on the door, and he bored a hole through it into the door. Then he doubled one end of a strap around a little piece of wood, and with his knife cut round the holes through the strap.He laid the little piece of wood on the door again, with the strap doubled around it, and all the holes making a one hole. Then Laura gave him a peg and a hammer and he drove the peg into the hole. The peg went through the strap and the little piece of wood and through the strap again and into the door. That held the strap so that it couldn’t get loose. Pa said that he had told them a fellow didn’t need nails. When he had fastened the three hinges to the door, he set the door in the doorway. It fitted. Then he pegged strips of wood to the old slabs on either side of the doorway, to keep the door from swinging outward. He set the door in place again, and Laura stood against it to hold it there, while Pa fastened the hinges to the door frame. But before he did this he had made the latch on the door, because, of course, there must be someway to keep the door shut. That’s what the way he made the latch: First he hewed a short, thick piece of oak. From one side of this, in the middle, he cut a wide deep notch. He pegged this stick to the inside of the door, up-and-down and near the edge. He put the notched side against the door, so that the notch made a little slot. Then he hewed and whittled a longer smaller stick. This stick was small enough to slip easily through the slot.