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But he would always find some sunny nook, with a southern exposure and a pleasing prospect, near the brook or some spring of sweet water, and, if possible, with forest or rock sheltering from the north winds. In a few hours young Carson would construct his half-faced cabin, as the hunting-camp was called. A large log generally furnished the foundation of the back part of the hut.
The boy Abraham climbed at night to his bed of leaves in the loft, by a ladder of wooden pins driven into the logs. This life has been vaunted by poets and romancers as a happy and healthful one. Even Dennis Hanks, speaking of his youthful days when his only home was the half-faced camp, says, "I tell you, Billy, I enjoyed myself better then than I ever have since."
This forms a shelter for three or four men, and is a good defense against winds and rains. If a fire be then made in front, the smoke will be carried away, so as not to incommode the occupants of the bivouac. This is called a "half-faced" camp.
The lateness of the autumn compelled him to provide a shelter as quickly as possible, and he built what is known on the frontier as a half-faced camp, about fourteen feet square. This structure differed from a cabin in that it was closed on only three sides, and open to the weather on the fourth.
They bushwhacked him, I'll bet a stack of blues. I aim to git busy soon as I find out who done it." The red-headed man raised his voice a trifle. "Say, you kid there at the table come here an' hold these ropes! See you don't let the hawses at the other end of 'em git away!" Slowly the boy turned, pushing his chair round so that he half-faced the group before the bar. He neither rose nor answered.
He drifted to Indiana, and in a spot which was then an almost untrodden wilderness, built a casa santa, which his connection, Dennis Hanks, calls "that darned little half-faced camp" a dwelling enclosed on three sides and open on the fourth, without a floor, and called a camp, it seems, because it was made of poles, not of logs.
"A hunting camp, or what was called a half-faced cabin, was of the following form; the back part of it was sometimes a large log; at the distance of eight or ten feet from this, two stakes were set in the ground a few inches apart, and at the distance of eight or ten feet from these, two more, to receive the ends of the poles for the sides of the camp.
She rose and walked to the fireplace, her elbows on the mantelpiece, and her head back. "I'll tell you all I can. Perhaps you're right," she said. "There has been too much mystery. You asked me once who was Milburgh." She turned and half-faced him. "I won't ask you that question any more," he said quietly, "I know!" "You know?" "Yes, Milburgh is your mother's second husband." Her eyes opened.
Occasionally they had log-houses, with even here and there a second story above the puncheon-floor, reached by a ladder; but in the main their habitations were half-faced camps, secured in front at night by fires.
Abraham was at that time seven years old, and for a year after the removal, the family lived in what was called a "half-faced camp," fourteen feet square that is to say, a covered shed of three sides, the fourth side being open to the weather. Then the family achieved the luxury of a cabin, but a cabin without floor or door or window.
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