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We also had to fit draw-strings to our wind-proof blouses and adjust our headgear according to our individual fancy, and finally, tobacco and smokers' requisites would be added to the little bundle, which all packed up neatly in a pillow-slip. This personal bag served also as a pillow.
He can't tell you what happened because he doesn't know himself." "Maybe the farmhouse was cold," Chirpy Cricket suggested. Mrs. Ladybug made no comment on that remark. "Perhaps the roof leaked," said Daddy Longlegs. Still no sign from Mrs. Ladybug. "She found that the farmhouse wasn't wind-proof," said Daddy Longlegs' wife. And Mrs. Ladybug didn't deny it; nor did she say that that was so.
Ladybug expected to move. "My winter quarters will be wind-proof," Mrs. Ladybug told them. And that speech set them all to guessing again. Almost everybody said then that she was going to live underground. "I shall not feel a drop of rain not even during the January thaw," Mrs. Ladybug went on.
A haystack is cozy and warm; it's wind-proof; it sheds water; and there's nothing bigger anywhere." It really seemed as if Chirpy Cricket had solved the great mystery. "He's guessed the riddle!" people said. "You might as well admit now, Mrs. Ladybug, that you're going to spend the winter in Farmer Green's haystack." But Mrs. Ladybug dashed their hopes. "You're wrong," she told her friends.
Husband and wife walked till they had reached the house they were in search of, which stood in a terrace facing the sea, and was fronted by a small garden of wind-proof and salt-proof evergreens, stone steps leading up to the porch.
The hut was large and well-constructed, though now a little falling to decay. It was built of logs laid horizontally in order one above another, and rendered tolerably wind-proof by the moss and clay which served to fill up the crevices. Into this primitive dwelling Jacob followed his guide. He was surprised at the air of comfort presented by the interior.
Wilson is also to try the effect of a double wind-proof suit instead of extra woollen clothing. If two suits of wind-proof will keep one as warm in the spring as a single suit does in the summer, it is evident that we can face the summit of Victoria Land with a very slight increase of weight. I think the new crampons, which will also be tried on this journey, are going to be a great success.
Three or four wind-proof matches Teall struck on a box and tossed into the oil-soaked pile of combustibles. In a moment the increasing heat of the blaze drove him back several yards. Higher and higher mounted the red and yellow flames. Hundreds stood about, their faces fully illumined by the big glow. "It's going to be a great one," Ted called to Dick, as the latter came toward him.
The party used a double tent for this journey, that is to say, a light lining was fitted on the inner side of the five bamboo tent poles, so that when the ordinary wind-proof tent cloth was spread over the poles an air space was provided. There was, I may say, a sharp difference of opinion as to the value of the tent; Wilson's party swore by it and Scott was always loud in its praise.
Had it been cold, every little feather would have lain down close against its neighbors, forming an admirable, wind-proof and cold-proof blanket. Nature, on Sthor, had original ideas of arrangement too. Sthorians possessed two eyes one directly above the other, in the center of their faces. The face was so long, and narrow, it resembled a blunt hatchet, with the two eyes on the edge.
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