four miles of travel. Overland it was less than a 

 mile. After following the stream for some dis- 

 tance, at just the right place they turned off, 

 left the stream, and dared the overland dangers. 

 How did they know the situation of the colony 

 in the willows, or that it had escaped fire, and 

 how could they have known the shortest, best 

 way to it? 



The morning after the arrival of the refugees, 

 work was begun on two new houses and a dam, 

 which was about sixty feet in length and built 

 across a grassy open. Green cuttings of willow, 

 aspen, and alder were used in its construction. 

 Not a single stone or a handful of mud was used. 

 When completed it appeared like a windrow of 

 freshly raked shrubs. It was almost straight, 

 but sagged a trifle downstream. Though the 

 water filtered freely through, it flooded the flat 

 above. As the two new houses could not shel- 

 ter all the refugees, it is probable that some of 

 them were sheltered in bank tunnels, while 

 room for others may have been found in the 

 old houses. 



That winter the colony was raided by some 

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