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Life with the Dutch Settler.
The Indians slept in the luxuriant barn of logs, with blankets, plenty of hay, and a roof.

They were more than content, for now, on the edge of the wilderness, they were very close to wild life.

Not a day or a night passed without bringing proof of that.
One end of the barn was portioned off for poultry.

In this the working staff of a dozen hens were doing their duty, which, on that first night of the "brown angels' visit," consisted of silent slumber, when all at once the hens and the new hands were aroused by a clamorous cackling, which speedily stopped.