A summer on the Canadian Prairie . of its original ! Oh, its original! I allowed. Original! mocked Hilaria; we will hope its unique. I am afraid you may find it a little chilly without thestove, because during my absence the plaster will prob-ably have fallen in, and a number of the poles are a bitwide apart. But Ill patch it all up in the morning. Inmy role of architect and builder plasterin was my strongpoint. Look alive, Klarnz, or you will turn over thewhole outfit, and my dwelling-house was not designed fora hospital! I guess, said Klarnz. Gee up, thar! he encouraged,as we struck
A summer on the Canadian Prairie . of its original ! Oh, its original! I allowed. Original! mocked Hilaria; we will hope its unique. I am afraid you may find it a little chilly without thestove, because during my absence the plaster will prob-ably have fallen in, and a number of the poles are a bitwide apart. But Ill patch it all up in the morning. Inmy role of architect and builder plasterin was my strongpoint. Look alive, Klarnz, or you will turn over thewhole outfit, and my dwelling-house was not designed fora hospital! I guess, said Klarnz. Gee up, thar! he encouraged,as we struck off the Touchwood trail, and jolted towardsthe hut on the eminence. In dimensions the shack was fourteen by boasted a three by four by five pit in the middle,which did duty for a cellar, and it lacked the worst in-convenience of limited habitudes, it was not low. Built of poplar poles knocked into the ground on end,and carefully plastered with sand and cement, thesesettlers shacks can be wonderfully warm and cosy in II. COMING DOWN TOUCHWOOD HILL INTO FORTQUAPPELLE ON THE CANADIAN PRAIRIE in winter, and cool in summer; but the poles of mybrothers shack were wide-set, and almost the whole ofthe plaster, which was of mud only, had fallen in. Day-light peered in on us from the north, south, and eastwalls; and at the west end, not only through the gapsand chinks which defied the plaster, but from a ten inchby twelve immovably fixed window. The roof, which was constructed of recumbent polesplaced at the usual angle, and covered with blocks ofturf, seemed fairly sound; but the sky gleamed througha circular space to remind us of the stove which hadQot arrived with us at Lipton. In one corner of theshack two collapsible, canvas-covered stretchers lay sideby side; these, with the forlorn-looking hunting sketchbv Basil Xis^htinc^ale, were the full force of the house-hold gods. There was a detached air of welcome aboutthe familiar sketch, but the stretchers seemed only toaccen
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