Two children of the foothills . <8»? Chapter VI. THE CARPENTER. One of our most interesting series of experi-ences arose from the study of The CarpenterSong, and the picture which accompaniedthe same. It so chanced that the roof of ourcabin needed repairing. A bundle of shingleswas purchased, and one of our foot-hill neigh-bors was engaged to patch the roof. Thechildren, of course, were alive with interest inhis work, as they had so few of these externalinterruptions in their quiet life. Margarettook this occasion to call their attention to thecarpenters on the roof of the picture in the<
Two children of the foothills . <8»? Chapter VI. THE CARPENTER. One of our most interesting series of experi-ences arose from the study of The CarpenterSong, and the picture which accompaniedthe same. It so chanced that the roof of ourcabin needed repairing. A bundle of shingleswas purchased, and one of our foot-hill neigh-bors was engaged to patch the roof. Thechildren, of course, were alive with interest inhis work, as they had so few of these externalinterruptions in their quiet life. Margarettook this occasion to call their attention to thecarpenters on the roof of the picture in the< Mother-Play-Book. They had a long talkabout what the carpenters were doing, fromthe sawing of the tree to the making of theframe for the house. Their next step was aninspection of the cabin in which we lived,which, fortunately, was unplastered, and there-fore its rafters and beams could easily bestudied. On one of our long tramps Margarettook the children to a log cabin further up themountain where they saw a still better ex
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