Don't you loaf neither.

Do you hear me ?" "Yes, sir," answered Jamie timidly.
It was a relief to stop walking and to feel the man relax the relentless grip upon his arm, and Jamie, meekly enough, began breaking boughs with the man always within striking distance, as though afraid that he might run away and make his escape, though Jamie was quite too tired for that.
The man with the axe cut a stiff pole and trimmed it.

Then he lopped off the lower branches of two spruce trees that stood a convenient distance apart, and laid the pole on a supporting limb of each tree, about four feet from the ground.

This was to form the ridge of a lean-to shelter.

Poles were now cut and formed into a sloping roof by resting one end upon the ridge pole, the other upon the ground, and the poles covered with a thick thatch of branches to exclude the snow.
When this was completed a quantity of dry wood was cut, and in front of the lean-to a fire was lighted.
While the man with the axe was engaged in thatching the roof and lighting the fire and gathering wood, the other turned his attention to the preparation of the bed.
"Don't you try to break away, now!" he growled at Jamie.