the ashes which he could sell at 7 pounds the barrel.

The log-house, or rather hut, was next built. Four logs were first laid
down on the ground to mark out the shape of the hut, the ends being
notched to fit into each other. The upper sides of the logs were then
hollowed out, so that the next tier of logs fitted into them. These
were also notched. In the same way others were placed above these till
the walls were of the proper height. The front wall was higher than the
back one, so that the roof sloped from the front to the back. There
were now the four walls, but no door and no windows. These were sawed
out and frames fitted into them. The roof was made of smaller logs. A
log was split in two and hollowed out so as to form a trough. A row of
troughs was then put on side by side, sloping from the front wall to the
back, the hollow part up. Over the edges of these were next placed
other troughs with the hollow down. It was just as rounded tiles are
used for roofs in England. The troughs stuck out some way both before
and behind to protect the walls. This sort of roof, from being very
thick, keeps out the cold in winter, and the heat in summer. The spaces
in the walls between the logs were then filled up with clay. A
well-made door and thick shutters being fixed up, and a large stove
lighted, Michael found even in the coldest weather, that his log hut
could be kept far warmer than had been his cottage in the old country.
The hut was divided into three rooms, a large one in the middle to serve
for the kitchen, the parlour, store-room, and boys' sleeping room; and
one on each side,--one of them was for himself and wife and two youngest
children, and the other for the girls.

Michael and his boys made all the furniture out of slabs. The slabs
were made in this way: they took a clean straight-grained pine-tree and
cut it into logs eight feet long. One end of each was lined out into
planks, three or four inches thick, and then split with wedges. They
then fixed the plank into notches with wedges between two logs, and
smoothed them with the axe and plane. Thinner planks were made out of
the white cedar, which splits very freely. The fir planks served for
the flooring of their bed-rooms, and for shelves and cupboards.

As they for the first time sat round the table just finished by Michael,
they thanked God heartily who had brought them to a country where steady
hard work could gain for them so many comf