Chapter 23: Friday the Fifth

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌​​​​​​​‌​‌​‌​​‌​‌‌‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌⁠The weather has been bad all this week, but I've had a great deal of sewing to do, and for two days Dinky-Dunk stayed in and helped me fix up the shack. I made more book-shelves out of more old biscuit-boxes and my lord made a gun-rack for our fire-arms. Percival Benson rode over once, through the storm, and it took us half an hour to thaw him out. But he brought some books, and says he has four c