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Updated: May 7, 2025
It was made of tongue-and-groove drop-siding, which did away with the need of tar paper, and in the homestead country marked a man's prestige and solidity. We were met at the open door by a pretty, plump young woman. A little girl of seven stood quietly at one side, and a little boy, perhaps five, at the other. As we stood there with the jug she broke into a pleasant laugh. "You've come for water!
Subdued, owing to the fact that it was mostly confined to one building the new, large one, about which stretched a high and strong fence, made with tongue-and-groove boards so that no prying eyes might find a crack, even, through which to peer.
The room was barren, the walls of tongue-and-groove sheathing alternate brown and yellow boards like the walls of a stable, were adorned with two or three unframed lithographs, the Christmas "souvenirs" of weekly periodicals, fastened with great wire nails; a bunch of herbs or flowers, lamentably withered and grey with dust, was affixed to the mirror over the black walnut washstand by the window, and a yellowed photograph of Annixter's combined harvester himself and his men in a group before it hung close at hand.
I couldn't move anything but my hands, and exploration with them quickly showed me that I was in a box, rather tight on sides and bottom one of those tongue-and-groove cases such as they ship dry goods in with the top rather open, as if it had been nailed up with scraps.
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