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cried Whopper . `` What is it now but night ? '' `` No , it 's morning , lad , but rather early , I admit . '' Under the old hunter 's directions they went to work , and by seven o'clock had the shelter cleaned out . This gave them a chance to get at their stores and also use the fireplace once more , and they cooked a fish breakfast and made a generous pot of coffee and another of chocolate . `` We 'll cut all these branches away and then build a regular pole roof , '' said Jed Sanborn . `` Build it right and it will withstand any pile o ' snow you kin git on it . ''