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Updated: May 28, 2025
Are you goin' to teach the school?" "Yes, the arrangements have been made, and I am to begin work Monday morning." "Good enough. Well, we'll go on in now and eat a snack, for I reckon the women folks have got it about ready." We went early to bed. The house was but a story and a half high, and I was to room with Alf, up close to the clap-board roof.
Most of the land was poor, and the "improvements" equally so. The house was a hewed log cabin about 18×20 feet, with clap-board roof held down by weight poles, and the walls "chinked" with mud. It had a large fire-place at one end, and a chimney made of slats and mortar, familiarly known as a "stick" chimney.
Bob Mosely's house was a tolerably large bark shanty, with a clap-board roof; and there were assembled all the young hunters and pretty girls of the country, for many a mile round. The young men were in their best hunting-dresses, but not one could compare with mine; and my raccoon-cap, with its flowing tail, was the admiration of everybody.
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