excellent hand-sewing.

When the work was finished the father and the mother crawled into a
double bunk that was surrounded by a curtain; Ko-ko-hay wound herself
up in a blanket and lay down upon the floor, and Oo-koo-hoo did
likewise, yet there were two bunks still unoccupied. But I was
informed that I was to occupy the single one, while the four girls were
to sleep in the big double one. As I had not had my clothes off for
several days and as I was counting on the pleasure of sleeping in my
night-shirt, I planned to sit up late enough to make my wish come true,
though I knew that the intended occupants of those two bunks would have
to rely solely upon darkness to form a screen, as neither bunk was
provided with a curtain. After a little while, however, it began to
dawn upon me that the girls were counting on doing the same thing, for
they made no move to leave the open fire. But the Sand Man finally
made them capitulate. At last, rising from their seats, they piled a
lot of fresh wood upon the fire, then climbing into their big bunk,
they took off their shawls and hanging them from the rafters, draped
them completely about their bed. Now my opportunity had arrived, and
though the fire was filling the one-room log house with a blaze of
light, I made haste to discard my clothes--for now the older people
were all sound asleep. In a few moments I was in the very act of
slipping on the coveted garment when I heard a peal of merriment behind
me. On looking round I discovered that the shawls had vanished from
around the bunk and four merry young ladies, all in a row, were peering
at me from beneath their blankets and fairly shaking their bed with
laughter.

INDIANS AND CIVILIZATION

Tastowich's home was built entirely of wood, deerskin, and clay. The
house was of logs, the glassless windows were of deerskin parchment,
the door-lock and the door-hinges were of wood, the latch string was of
deerskin, the fireplace and the chimney were of clay, the roof thatch
was of bark. The abode was clean, serviceable, and warm; and yet it
was a house that could have been built thousands of years ago. But
consider, for instance, Oo-koo-hoo's comfortable lodge; a similar
dwelling, no doubt, could have been erected a million years ago; and
thus, even in our time, the pre-historic still hovers on the outskirts
of our flimsy civilization. A civilization that billions of human
beings for millions of years have been struggling vi