There is our little squaw will help us to set up a capital wigwam, while the new house is building." "But the nice table that you made, Louis, and the benches and shelves!" "Never mind, Cathy, we will have better tables, and benches, and shelves too.

Never fear, _ma chere_, the same industrious Louis will make things comfortable.

I am not sorry the old shanty is down; we shall have a famous one put up, twice as large, for the winter.

After the corn is planted we shall have nothing else to do but to think about it." The next two or three days was spent in erecting a wigwam, with poles and birch bark; and as the weather was warm and pleasant, they did not feel the inconvenience so much as they would have done had it been earlier in the season.

The root-house formed an excellent store-house and pantry; and Indiana contrived, in putting up the wigwam, to leave certain loose folds between the birch-bark lining and outer covering, which formed a series of pouches or bags, in which many articles could be stowed away out of sight.