THE next and following days were spent in removing our furniture and property, particularly our poultry, which had multiplied greatly.

We also constructed a poultry-yard, at a sufficient distance from our house to save our sleep from disturbance, and still so near that we could easily tend them.

We made it as a continuation of the colonnade, and on the same plan, but enclosed in the front by a sort of wire trellis-work, which Fritz and Jack made wonderfully well.

Fritz, who had a turn for architecture and mechanics, gave me some good hints, especially one, which we put into execution.

This was to carry the water from the basin of the fountain through the poultry-yard, which enabled us also to have a little pond for our ducks.