human
What are these for, Father?
gpt
These are the bricks of which we are going to build our house, my son,
human
But why don’t we build our house of logs, Father? asked Joe.
gpt
It seems to me it would be a lot nicer, and a lot less work. We have plenty of timber here. I think it would be much better.
human
Which shows that you don’t know anything about it, my boy. In the first place, we can’t spare the timber. There is none too much of it at best, and what there is we want to save for fuel and shelter. In the second place, there is no house that is better for the hard weather of the prairies than a sod house. It is warm in winter, cool in summer, and about the only thing that will withstand the Nebraska blizzards and cyclones. Just wait until it is finished and you’ll see. Don’t you remember what a nice home the Wards had? Now take your spades and cut the sod as I am doing. Keep your squares even, and the edges of the sod straight and true. When we have the sod taken off this field it will be in fine condition to plow up, and perhaps we can get in a small crop of sod-corn yet this year.
gpt
Nebraska marble