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Updated: June 7, 2025
"Why, I'll " Terabon hesitated, and then continued: "It's like building a house. I gather all this material: lumber, stone, logs, cement, shingles, lathes, quick-lime, bricks, and everything. I store it all up in this notebook; that's my lumber yard. Then when I dig the foundation, I'll come in here and I'll find the things I need to build my house, or mansion.
'You hain't dressed the sapwood off them blocks, and the grain eats into one another besides. True for Uncle Zack that gentry from the old country warn't never born to be handlin' axes an' frows. It don't come kinder nateral. They shouldn't be no thicker than four to an inch to be rael handsome shingles, added he, 'such as sell for seven-an'-sixpence a thousand.
Tossed like a plaything on the Sands at that part named the Shingles off Margate, the Demerara soon began to break up, and the helpless crew did as those of the Fusilier had done and were still doing they signalled for aid. But it seemed a forlorn resource.
But as for the old structure of our story, its white-oak frame, and its boards, shingles, and crumbling plaster, and even the huge clustered chimney in the midst, seemed to constitute only the least and meanest part of its reality.
With the handle of his whip Webb pointed to the roof of the farmhouse, the fuzzy gray shingles of which were barely showing above the trees by which it was shaded. "You haven't told me how the family are," Mostyn said, "I suppose the children are much larger now. Dolly, at least, must be a young lady, from what Saunders tells me of her school-work."
The house was like the tree the shingles all rotten, but the beams were sound. Those beams were hewn out of the forest two hundred and fifty years ago." "Gracious!" said Janet. "And how old is the tree?" "I should say about a hundred. I suppose it wouldn't care to admit it." "How do you know?" she inquired. "Oh, I'm very intimate with trees. I find out their secrets."
After sending to secure a place at once in the early coach, she sat down to write to her master. Her first thought was to tell him all that had happened at North Shingles that morning. On reflection, however, she rejected the idea. Bygrave had contrived to turn them against her. She resolved this time to keep them strictly in her own possession.
Standing among the rank weeds which grew waist high about the place, they gazed in awe at the walls which once were white, but now were streaked and weather stained; at the windows, whose broken panes admitted the rain or the sunshine, and from which the shutters were sagging or had fallen completely away; at the shingles of the roof, violet-toned and curling up; and at the nests the birds had built in the chimneys and eaves.
For the kennel roof of shingles, put up in one corner of the enclosure as a protection for the pack, had served only, during the week that followed the storm, to prevent the pale beams of the winter sun from reaching the pariah and his dumb companions. Presently the flap of a near-by lodge was flung aside. An Indian woman emerged and threw a handful of bones toward the shelter.
Built entirely of huge red cedar logs it was two stories in height, the first house of more than one story standing on the shores of the southern Ohio. Its roof was the wonder and envy of the whole region for many years. The shingles were of black walnut, elegantly rounded at the butt-ends.
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