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One day this careful mother has completed a beautiful little teepee of the skin of a buffalo calf, worked with red porcupine quills in a row of rings just below the smoke-flaps and on each side of the front opening. In the center of each ring is a tassel of red and white horse-hair. The tip of each smoke-flap is decorated with the same material, and the doorflap also.
Seems to me it was about like this," and he took up a burnt stick and a piece of grocer's paper. "No now hold on. Yes, I remember now; I seen a bunch of squaws make one oncet. "First they sewed the skins together. "Le's see, now. I reckon thar's about ten poles for a ten-foot lodge, with two more for the smoke-flaps.
The boys turned in at once, but next morning, on going to the barn, they found that Si had not only sewed on and hemmed the smoke-flaps, but had resewn the worst of the patches and hemmed the whole bottom of the teepee cover with a small rope in the hem, so that they were ready now for the pins and poles. The cover was taken at once to the camp ground. Yan carried the axe.
Under Caleb's directions the breezy side of the cover was now raised a little, and the shady side much more. This changed the teepee from a stifling hothouse into a cool, breezy shade. "An' when ye want to know which way is the wind, if it's light, ye wet your finger so, an' hold it up. The windy side feels cool at once, and by that ye can set your smoke-flaps."
It just broke my heart. I sobbed all the way home, didn't I, Yan? "There's the smoke-flaps to stitch on and hem, and the pocket at the top of the flaps and I suppose," Yan added, as a feeler, "it would be better if hemmed all around." "Now, I tell ye what I'll do. If you boys'll go to the 'Corner' to-night and get my boots that the cobbler's fixing, I'll sew on the smoke-flaps."
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