Who does ?" "Why, you get some of the canes that grow a little farther up the river, and a certain long wiry grass I have marked down, and then you fix and weave till you make a screen from tree to tree; this could be patched with wet clay; I know where there is plenty of that.

Meantime see what is done to our hands.

The crown of this great palm-tree lies at the southern aperture of your house, and blocks it entirely up.

That will keep off the only cold wind, the south wind, from you to-night.

Then look at these long, spiky leaves interlaced over your head.