"I like to work with logs.

First, I must measure the ground and make a working plan." Peter was not sorry to be diverted.

"Hadn't we better get lumber from the 'Company' mill ?" he suggested.

"Looks like up to date somehow." "A board shack looks rotten in the woods ?" said Ambrose.
"You're so gol-durn artistic," said Peter quizzically.
Minot & Doane's store was a long log shack with a sod roof sprouting a fine crop of weeds.

The original shack had been added to on one side, then on the other.