62 THE BEAVER 
keeping the sleeping room dry. I have not happened to run 
across any arrangement which conformed exactly to this 
description. 
It was my good fortune, however, to find a lodge in a 
drained pond on Lost Creek, Yellowstone Park, which had 
one entrance so large that I could enter the house without 
having to destroy any part of it for the purpose. The out- 
side dimensions of the house were about 134 by 16% feet 
<7." 

Fig. 29. FLoor PLAN oF THE LODGE ON Lost CREEK 
on the bottom, and about seven feet high. The owners 
evidently believed in preparedness, for they had no less than 
eight doors or entrances, all at the pond bottom. Nor did 
they think it wise to have them all come to the interior at 
the same place. The diagram shows how they arranged 
matters. One came up through the floor of the living-room, 
possibly for a sudden departure in case an unwelcome caller 
arrived. Another, opening outside near the above, passed 
clear under the chamber, and came out on the first floor or 
