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Foul Play

CHAPTER XXVI
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A long shallow net four feet deep--cocoa-fiber.
3.

A great quantity of stout grass rope, and light but close matting for the roof, and some cocoanut matting for the ground and to go under the mattress.

But Hazel, instructed by her, had learned to plait--rather clumsily--and he had a hand in the matting.
Hazel in the meantime heightened his own mud banks in the center, and set up brick fireplaces with hearth and chimney; one on each side; and now did all the cooking; for he found the smoke from wood made Miss Rolleston cough.

He also made a number of pigeon-holes in his mud walls and lined them with clay.

One of these he dried with fire, and made a pottery door to it, and there kept the lucifer-box.


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