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 big Briton could sleep at the entrance. So it was all arranged. But as
there could be no telling how long they might have to remain here, and
as rain would be sure to fall, even if snow did not, Tom and Frank began
to build a hut inside Fort Fairyland, as they called their strange
abode. [Illustration] Now each boy had--like all Greenland sailors--not
only a large, many-bladed knife, with a saw in it, but a huge broad
dagger in a leathern belt round his waist. So they did not want for
tools. They found the best wood for what they wanted growing close by
the lake, in the shape of straight and strong willows. There were plenty
of leaves, and grasses, and heath also. It would be rather a long job,
but they set to work with a will, and in three days' time they had
dragged everything they wanted up to Fort Fairyland. The building of the
hut was fine fun. At first it was only meant to be a kind of shelter on
poles, but, as they had so much time upon their hands, they agreed to
build real walls, and leave space for a door and a window. In little
more than a week they had the framework all up, and the roof all made.
It was thatched first with broad leaves, and then with grass. And, mind
you a short ladder had to be made first to permi