GRAMPAW CARVED A CRIBBAGE set, too; they played it, and chess, and card games during storms that kept them housebound. d**k, in occasional hours of leisure, cleared a fair athletic field outside. They had a quoits’ run, a badminton court (a little uneven, but nobody minded) and a shuffleboard plane; also a fine sand-pit for The Pooch.
Pop had planned the house with his usual mathematical forevision. From its first two rooms, built with an eye to offering swift shelter, soon spread wings. Before long it had four separate bedrooms, a kitchen, a dining-nook, and the living- or meeting-room, which Grampaw called the “git-together” room. There was also a cisterned refreshing-room, and another would be added as soon as d**k devised a method of supplying the house with fresh, running water.
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