I also used it to cut a few six-inch-diameter holes through an old lath-and-plaster ceiling.

Then, having replaced the defective or old lath, he will re-plaster and a properly finished job will result.

Ernest and Sherman were just preparing to rush up the ladder armed with villainous-looking battle-axes made out of old lath, when Alice halted them.

An immense saloon, with two gigantic chimney-pieces, had merely a provisional ceiling of old laths.

It crumpled like a giant beer can as it smashed wall and doorframe inward, throwing plywood splinters and eighty-four-year- old lathing sixty feet into the air.