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We cut down straight grained timber, split the logs open and hewed the face and edges of them; we laid them back down on the ground, tight together and made a floor under the straw roof. This building appeared from a distance something like a hay barrack. Now we had a sort of thrashing-floor. Back of this we built a log stable.
A quantity of barley had been lately thrashed; for the heap of straw on one side the thrashing-floor was almost as high as the unthrashed corn on the other. "Here be two royal beds," said Denys; "which shall we lie on, the mow, or the straw?" "The straw for me," said Gerard.
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