Louis was to carve wooden platters and dishes, and some stools were to be made with hewn blocks of wood, till something better could be devised.

Their bedsteads were rough poles of iron-wood, supported by posts driven into the ground, and partly upheld by the projection of the logs at the angles of the wall.

Nothing could be more simple.

The framework was of split cedar; and a safe bed was made by pine boughs being first laid upon the frame, and then thickly covered with dried grass, moss, and withered leaves.

Such were the lowly but healthy couches on which these children of the forest slept.
A dwelling so rudely framed and scantily furnished would be regarded with disdain by the poorest English peasant.