midnights
We repaired the floor . I bought beds and bedding , utensils for cooking , a rifle , an ax , and some other tools . I stocked the house with provisions . And in a week I was installed , listening at night to the cry of the wild animals , wolves and foxes and owls ; and the song of late whippoorwills when an access of lingering summer warmed the midnights . I chopped my own wood . I killed quails and squirrels , and roasted them . I tried my hand at making cornbread .