Service in the King's guards (1891) (14755959086)

Identifier: serviceinkingsgu00bost (find matches)
Title: Service in the King's guards
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Indians of North America Missions Missionaries Dakota Indians
Publisher: Boston Chicago : Congregational Sunday School and Pub. Society
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University



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e mudto dry. It was time that we made acquaintancewith the more remote of our parishioners. An early call was on a family who lived in a sodhouse. Sod houses are built where there is no supplyof lumber, or no means to buy it. A furrow is turnedfrom the slout sward of the prairie, about a foot oreighteen inches in width, which is then cut by thespade into squares. These squares are piled one onanother to form the thick walls of the house, one sidebeing carried higher than that opposite, to afford therequisite slope for the roof. Openings are cut orformed in the walls as they rise, for door and window.A few rough boards are laid slantwise from wall towall, and covered vrith sods, which thus form the roofalso, with a hole in one corner for the stove funnel. Awindow sash or half sash and a rough door completethe outfit. Sometimes the luxury of a rough looseboard floor is found within, but often only a floor ofhard-trodden earth, with a piece or two of board byway of rug, before the bed. u
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Among the People. 45 The walls of this first sod house which we enteredwere very thick, and we congratulated the ovvner, oueof the best farmers, on having a dwelling which shutout the cold winds. Yes, he said, but the roof leaks wretchedly.It leaks mud on us, and I must do something. The sweet-faced mistress of the house was tendingher two beautiful children cheerily ; but how our heartssank at the close proximity of cupboard, bed, stove,table, and crib! This mother proved a quiet butefficient helper in all good things, whether churchsocial, temperance meeting, or Sunday-school festival. Another call was upon a young man and his wife,persons of intelligence from a college town in aneastern state, who brought letters of highest recom-mendation from their former pastor. The house —this one of boards — was about ten by twelve feet,and contained one room. Within was neatness itself.The cook-stove shone with spotless luster ; the neatwardrobe, made and painted by the husband, con-ceale