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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 612

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lls: aframework of poles or long sticks first, and onthese a mass of brush and turf until the wallswere three feet thick and .so solid that Jack Frost would find it quite useless to try to get inside.The roof was in the shape of a rough dome andat the top was comparatively thin; here little orno… … SOME CUT TREES AND SAPLINGS, SOMEHAULED THEM TO THE DAM. or tunnels, led down on the deep-water side, oneof these being on a gradual incline, that foodsticks might the easier be dragged in. The en-trances to both were at the very bottom of thepond, where there would be no danger of thembeing closed…

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