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Alone in the Wilderness.
Rolf began the day by giving Skookum a bath as hot as he could stand it, and later his soup.

For the first he whined feebly and for the second faintly wagged his tail; but clearly he was on the mend.
Now the chinking and moss-plugging of the new cabin required all attention.

That took a day and looked like the biggest job on hand, but Rolf had been thinking hard about the winter.

In Connecticut the wiser settlers used to bank their houses for the cold weather; in the Adirondacks he knew it was far, far colder, and he soon decided to bank the two shanties as deeply as possible with earth.