We mended the holes in the roof.

We repaired the floor.

I bought beds and bedding, utensils for cooking, a rifle, an ax, and some other tools.

I stocked the house with provisions.

And in a week I was installed, listening at night to the cry of the wild animals, wolves and foxes and owls; and the song of late whippoorwills when an access of lingering summer warmed the midnights.