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pestle, still hold their place; the hand-mill, as old as the 
patriarchs, graces the chimney side, and a pot or two and 
an earthen jar make up the complement. 
So lived their forefathers, and that their ghosts may not 
revisit and rebuke any innovation, the Indian world must 
stand still. 
The style of building among this people is peculiar; two 
square pens are put up with logs, and roofed or thatched. 
The space between the pens is covered in and serves for 
eating-place and depository of harness, saddles and bridles, — 
&c. A door is cut in each pen, facing the passage. They 
have no windows, the door admitting all the light used. 
This style is called two pens and a passage, and is, in fact, 
only a shelter for the family from bad weather, for of furni- 
ture they have but little, and that of the rudest and most 
uncomfortable kind. © 
These buildings are stuck (almost invariably) upon the’ 
road; no neat door yard, with a substantial fence and neat 
gate, encloses them; no flower or vegetable’ garden is seen, 
but the ornamental figure of a half-starved hog, grunts 
_ lazily on one side, and a pack of miserable curs lounge on 
the other, the whole presenting an untidy picture of squalid 
discomfort, which even its temporary appearance cannot 
deceive. . 
Their present code of laws, if styictly enforced, would 
secure all the safety to life and property necessary, but 
