The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-05-23

which she attached hoods; she
then fixed to these Dutch trousers
and thus prepared for each OF Ut
a complete waterproof suit, clad
in which We might brave the
%severest rain.
In spite OF our endeavors tc
keep ourselves busy, the time
dragged heavily. Our mornings
were occupied in tending the an
imals; the boys amused them.
selves with their pets, and assist.
ed me in the manufacture OF card.
ing combs and a spindle for the
mother. The combs l made with
nails, which | placed head down
ward on a sheet Of tin about an
inch wide; holding the nails in
their proper positions ] poured
solder round their heads to fix
them to the tin, which | then
folded down on either side OF
them to keep them perfectly firm.
In the evening when our room
was Illuminated with wax candles,
| wrote a journal of all the events
which had occurred since our ar
rival in this foreign land; and,
while the mother vas busy with
her needle and Ernest making
sketches of birds, beasts, and
flowers with which he had met
during the past months, Fritz and
Jack taught little Franz to read.
Week after week rolled by.
Week after week saw us still
close prisoners. Incessant rain
battered down above us; constant
gloom hung oyer the desolate
scene.
CHAPTER TX
The winds at length were
lulled, the sun shot his brilliant
rays through the riven clouds,
the rain ceased to fall-spring
had come. No prisoners set at
liberty could have felt more joy
than we did as we stepped forth
from our winter abode, refreshed
our eye with the pleasant verdure
around us, and our ears with the
merry songs of a thousand happy
birds, and drank in the pure, bal
my air of spring.
Our plantations thriving
vigorously. The seed we had sown
was shooting through the moist
earth. All nature was refreshed.
Our nest was our first care;
filled with leaves and broken and
torn by the wind, it looked indeed
dilapidated. We worked hard, and
in a few days it was again hab-
liable. My wife begged that I
would now start her with the
flax, and as early as possible |
built a drying-oven, and then pre-
pared it for her use; I also, after
some trouble, manufactured a
beetle-reel and spinning-wheel,
and she and Franz were soon
hard at work, the little boy reel
ing off the thread his mother
spun.
| was anxious to visit Tent
holm, for l feared that much OF
our precious stores might have
suffered. Fritz and / made an ex-
cursion thither. The damage done
to Falconhurst was as nothing
compared to the scene that await
ed us. The tent was blown to the
ground, the canvas torn to rags,
the provisions soaked, and two
casks of powder utterly destroy
ed. We Immediately spread such
things as we hoped yet to pre-
serve in the sun to dry. The pin
mace was safe, but u faithful
tug-boat was dashed in pieces,
and the irreparable damage we
had sustained made me resolve
to contrive some safer and more
suitable winter-quarters before the
arrival of the next rainy season.
Fritz proposed that we should
hollow out a cave in the rock,
and though the difficulties such
an undertaking would present ap-
peared almost insurmountable, l
yet determined to make the al
we might not, thought
hew out a cavern OF suhclent
size to serve as a room, Dut we
at least make a cellar 1or
the more valuable and ~perlshapie
OF our stores.
Some days afterward we LETT
Falconhurst with the cart laden
a cargo of spades, hammers,
pickaxes, and croWDars,
0nd began our undertaking. On
the smooth face of the perpen-
dicular rock / drew out IN cnaiR
the size Of the proposed entrance