In what two ways may _wind_
be pronounced, and what is the difference in meaning?
IX.
19. I soon found that I lacked needles, pins, and thread,
and especially linen. Yet I made clothes and sewed up the seams with
tough stripe of goatskin. I afterward got handkerchiefs and shirts from
another wreck. However, for want of tools my work went on heavily;
yet I managed to make a chair, a table, and several large shelves.
For a long time I was in want of a wagon or carriage of some kind.
At last I hewed out a wheel of wood and made a wheelbarrow.
20. I worked as steadily as I could for the rain, for this was the
rainy season. I may say I was always busy. I raised a turf wall close
outside my double fence, and felt sure if any people came on shore they
would not see anything like a dwelling. I also made my rounds in the
woods every day. As I have already said, I found plenty of wild goats.
I also found a kind of wild pigeon, which builds, not as wood pigeons do,
in trees, but in holes of the rocks. The young ones were very good meat.
Questions and Notes. What sound has _ea_ in _thread?_ What is peculiar
in the spelling of _liven?_ What is peculiar in the spelling of
_handkerchiefs?_ wrecks? What rule applied to the formation of the word
_heavily?_ What sound has _ai_ in _chair?_ Is the _i_ or the _a_
silent in _carriage?_ (Look this up in the dictionary.
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