We used to be afraid of the coyotes, though, of course, they can't hurt us.

Once uncle killed a rattlesnake in the shanty.

It had crawled in at the door.

I don't think, though, that you could get Lucy to sleep here alone overnight for all the land out of doors." In order to make the needed repairs to the roof, it was necessary to lay up again a part of the broken wall, then to hoist the fallen rafters into place prior to covering the whole again with a deep layer of earth.

Franklin, standing upon a chair, put his shoulders under the sagging beams and lifted them and their load of disarranged earth up to the proper level on the top of the wall, while Buford built under them with sods.