"I rather think you will keep to that resolution, Tommy," replied Mr.
Seagrave; "however, I must leave your mother to point out to you the
danger you were in yourself, and in which you placed others by your
folly."
The stockade was now almost finished; the door was the occasion of a
good deal of consultation; at last, it was agreed that it would be
better to have a door of stout oak plank, but with second door-posts
inside, about a foot apart from the door, between which could be
inserted short poles one above the other, so as to barricade it within
when required. This would make the door as strong as any other portion
of the stockade. As soon as this was all complete, the storehouse was
to be altered for a dwelling-house, by taking away the wattles of
cocoa-nut boughs on the sides, and filling them up with logs of
cocoa-nut trees.
Before the week was ended the stockade and door were complete, and they
now began to fell trees, to form the sides of the house. This was rapid
work; and while Mr. Seagrave, William, and Juno felled the trees, and
brought them on the wheels to the side of the stockade, all ready cut
to their proper lengths, Ready was employed in flooring the house with
a part of the deal planks which they had brought round from the cove.
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