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... lodge was earth , trampled and swept , and around the entire wigwam , next the wall , ran a low platform of cedar and balsam boughs covered with skins , furs , or woven cedar mats . A deerskin hung across the en- trance . On the mild ...
... lodge was earth , trampled and swept , and around the entire wigwam , next the wall , ran a low platform of cedar and balsam boughs covered with skins , furs , or woven cedar mats . A deerskin hung across the en- trance . On the mild ...
Page 86
... lodge , covered with cedar bark , and gray and shaggy in appearance , stood in a hazel thicket ; the leaves were yellow , spotted with brown , and falling from the branches . Squirrels stripped the fuzzy husks from the small nuts and ...
... lodge , covered with cedar bark , and gray and shaggy in appearance , stood in a hazel thicket ; the leaves were yellow , spotted with brown , and falling from the branches . Squirrels stripped the fuzzy husks from the small nuts and ...
Page 314
... lodge . She knew that the moccasins were in that lodge , and nothing else , yet the lodge was shaking . It trembled as if a storm were within it , not merely the bark of the sheathing trem- bling , but the framework of the structure ...
... lodge . She knew that the moccasins were in that lodge , and nothing else , yet the lodge was shaking . It trembled as if a storm were within it , not merely the bark of the sheathing trem- bling , but the framework of the structure ...
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