? ? ? ? 'IT WILL SMELL,' I SAID, 'but it will keep in the heat and keep out the rain and snow.'
? ? ? ? We were surveying the completed sealskin roof.
? ? ? ? 'It is clumsy, but it will serve the purpose, and that is the main thing,' I went on, yearning for her praise.
? ? ? ? And she clapped her hands and declared that she was hugely pleased.
? ? ? ? 'But it is dark in here,' she said the next moment, her shoulders shrinking with a little involuntary shiver.
? ? ? ? 'You might have suggested a window when the walls were going up,' I said. 'It was for you, and you should have seen the need of a window.'
? ? ? ? 'But I never do see the obvious, you know,' laughed back.
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