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They drove stakes to hold the corners together better and to keep the walls from falling down ; and between the logs they put in chinking of moss , grass , and mud . Even before the end of their first day they had quite a start on their new house , and were eager for the next day 's work , sore and crippled as they were . On the following day they made house-building their first order . By noon they had their side walls fairly well laid up with logs , which now gave them some trouble to hoist and to keep in place . They towed drift-wood now into the creek , having used up most of the material which lay close at hand . The roof gave them the most trouble . They built their side walls about four feet high , but they did not know how to keep the roof from falling in .