On Pa and Timmy’s first trip back to the new homesite to gather more material to take up to the still site, John and Carl used their combined manpower to hoist the last two logs into the first side of the cabin, on top of the first five logs. And just like that, the first side of the cabin was done! Pa and Timmy gathered up another load of supplies and started back to the still site. They hadn’t gone but a few hundred yards, when pa dropped the barrel he was carrying, when he stumbled over a root sticking up in the path. That old barrel started rollin downhill, knocking Timmy off his feet and over against a tree. Timmy dropped everything in his hands, yellin fur John and Carl to stop the barrel before it rolled all the way to China! That old barrel didn’t stand a chance in Hell with all that manpower chasin it and they captured it and Pa and Timmy got started off on their journey agin!
Carl and John got the supports up for the three other sides and got the first five logs into the other long side of the cabin, so they were ready when Pa and Timmy returned. All four guys got the remaining logs into that long side. Pa and Timmy started off on their last trip for the day and John and Carl got the long logs cut into halves for one of the short sides. They also got a door and the wooden latches fixed up for Pa to hang. When the guys got back, the four of them made short work on the rest of the walls! They would sleep inside tonight! There was no roof on their little cabin, but they would feel a lot safer, sleeping inside tonight!
John figured he would start the campfire outside the cabin to cook on. Carl pulled down the food from up in the tree where it was hanging and they took out the food they needed for the night before he pulled it right back up in the tree and tied it securely. Timmy put the cast iron frying pan on the fire and fried them all up some mountain lion steaks and some turnip greens. He fried the potatoes and onions in some oil. “Boys, there’s nothin like good old work to give you an appetite!” Earl said as he wiped his mouth on his handkerchief.
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They cleaned up the pots and stoked the fire for the night and all went into their new freshly built cabin and slept like babies!
Early the next morning, right as the sun was coming up, John pulled the food down from the tree again and Timmy cooked them some coffee and bacon and biscuits. “That smells mighty good,” Carl said, as he came out of the cabin stretchin.
“Well boys, this is our last day and we need to finish our work and head back early sose we get home before dark,” Earl said. He was pretty excited because after hauling up this last load of still supplies, he was goin to get started settin up the still! It would be far from completed today, but it was makin him feel like a kid at Christmas!
John and Carl knew they wouldn’t finish the roof today either, but they were pretty sure they could get the logs all cut and drug back to the cabin. Along about 3:30 in the afternoon the two teams reunited and started loading up their sleepin supplies and the food that was left and took off down the mountain. They hadn’t gone but about two miles when Earl smacked hisself in the head! “What’s goin on Pa, did you git bit by a mosquito?” Timmy asked.
Earl said, “No, we is almost out of fuel. I sure hope we can make it home with what we got. If’n we can git home, we can take the can in the wagon to get some more fuel, but if not you boys is goin to be pushin the car!”