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This last as she climbed up on the wheel and Ernest lifted her to the seat . `` Now , everything 's all right , '' said Ernest . Eight o'clock the next morning found Roger and Ernest finishing the living tent . By noon the kitchen tent , which really was a fly resting on four poles , was up , and the gasoline stove installed . It required the remainder of the day to knock together a rough table , two long benches and to prepare supper . And at eight o'clock that night both men were glad to go to bed . The next day they began work on the well .