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These tenements were, as already mentioned, of that class which
are so often seen on the borders, and such as belonged to the infancy
of architecture; being simply formed of logs, bark, and poles. The
area on which they stood contained several hundred square feet, and
was sufficiently elevated above the plain greatly to lessen if not to
remove all danger from Indian missiles. Here Ishmael believed he might
leave his infants in comparative security, under the protection of
their spirited mother, and here he now found Esther engaged at her
ordinary domestic employments, surrounded by her daughters, and
lifting her voice, in declamatory censure, as one or another of the
idle fry incurred her displeasure, and far too much engrossed with the
tempest of her own conversation to know any thing of the violent scene
which had been passing below.
"A fine windy place you have chosen for the camp, Ishmael!" she
commenced, or rather continued, by merely diverting the attack from a
sobbing girl of ten, at her elbow, to her husband.


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