. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . sothat it can resist the wiud,ajid the pole in the centre can be made of iron,with a tripod beneath. A fire may be built beneath the tripod for cook-ing or heating purposes, and the top can be opened, so as to give goodventilation. A flap ove* the top gets up a draught with the wind, and thisidea, like that of the shape of the tent, was borrowed from the friends were mi:ich pleased with their canvas house, and voted unani-mously that it was/the best thing of the kind they had seen. The onethey occupied wrfe large enough to ac
. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . sothat it can resist the wiud,ajid the pole in the centre can be made of iron,with a tripod beneath. A fire may be built beneath the tripod for cook-ing or heating purposes, and the top can be opened, so as to give goodventilation. A flap ove* the top gets up a draught with the wind, and thisidea, like that of the shape of the tent, was borrowed from the friends were mi:ich pleased with their canvas house, and voted unani-mously that it was/the best thing of the kind they had seen. The onethey occupied wrfe large enough to accommodate eight or ten men withease, and the Doctor told them that twelve or fourteen could find suffi-cient space therein for sleeping purposes. They wepe a sorry-looking party the next morning, as the most ofthem had b>een without sleep, and the dust had covered them so deeplythat it was,, not easy to recognize one from another. But all were dis-posed to \pQ merry, and many a joke was cracked over the breakfast, whichwas preXared with much diffi-. owing to the troublekeeping the fire withing^ or even of maintain-ing it at all. Though faceswer<3 soiled, the appetites wereg°°»d, and no one had evena thought of complaining,nilich less of expressing him-sejf sorry that he was there. - The teller of the brad-awlstary came out with a fresh^arrative this morning that/feet everybody in a roar. I was once out, said he,on the head-waters of theSmoky Hill River, when we had a wind to which last night was the merest puff,great guns! why it blew a whole park of artillery from the front of themilitary post, three miles away, and sent the cannon through the air asthough they had been corn-stalks. I saw one of em myself; it was a12-pound howitzer, that was taken clean from the ground and carriedtwo miles and a quarter, and a part of the way it went through the topsof some cotton-wood trees, and cut em off like a knife. THEIR CANVAS HOUSE. Talk of blowing 256 THE YOUNG N^MEODS. I wou
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