Bear, if necessary."
It was no easy matter to chop down the five trees to a height
of about eight feet, but once this was done cabin building began
in earnest, and by nightfall they had a rude roof over the posts
and had the back logged up to a height of four feet. The next
day they went at the task at sunrise, finishing the back and putting
in the two sides, one with a slit of a window, over which they
nailed some slats, so that nothing of size might get through.
"Now this begins to look like something," declared Shep. "I am
afraid the front with a door, though, is going to bother us."
"We'll work it somehow," answered Snap, confidently.
In a few days the cabin was complete and it must be confessed
that the young hunters were quite proud of their work. They made
a sort of mud plaster and with this filled up the chinks between
the logs, and the roof they thatched with bark, so as to keep
out the rain. The floor they covered with pine boughs, piling
the boughs high up at the back for a big couch upon which all
might rest at night. They also made a split-log bench and a rude
table, from which they might eat when the weather drove them indoors.
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