It covered almost the entire surface of the lake--a huge collection of little palm-thatched shacks built upon platforms raised above the water on stilts.
I saw some of the small thatched shacks along here, though not many.
Many of the miners who had cleaned up a considerable amount of gold during the summer had moved down to the mouth of the river, and settled in little shacks at Quaska.
They will live in their lonely shacks far up on the creeks.
It was the old story of a camp growing from tents to shacks in a night, from shacks to three-story buildings in a month.
Like the majority of shacks in the town, it boasted of only one story, and a long counter, whittled with the initials of those who had waited for their mail, was its chief adornment.
Many of the buildings were mere shacks incongruously painted in brilliant colors, and there were more dogs than were ever before gathered into one place.
From the station she could see half a dozen one-story shacks and, beyond, the outline of oil well derricks.
I found other stores, too, just shacks thrown together, but carrying a stock of everything in the line of wearing apparel and eatables.
A well equipped saw mill was not far away, and from its yards was obtained lumber for the gun pits and for shacks built for the officers and for the kitchen.
In some of these shacks they have a small room for visitors, with chairs and a table, and cheap prints of the Virgin on the walls.
Illustration: The Pasig River] Manila to-day is a curious mixture of native nipa shacks and old Spanish churches and forts with the up-to-date American buildings and improvements.
Miss Sibley, of Detroit, was in charge of this school, which was in a big, comfortable house near the native shacks on the edge of the town, and had twelve pupils at that time.
From other tents and shacks nearby came snores that showed how soundly miners could sleep.
Harry immediately took eight of the men and started the erection of three wooden shacks not far from the mine shaft.
The shacksthat had been built especially for the company's use were comfortable, even if they did smell of new pine boards.
It was one of the shacksnearest the shore of the harbor.
She talked with Mr. Hooley about it, and when the day's run was developed and run off in one of the shacks which was used for a try-out room, Ruth saw that the manager had not put the matter too strongly.
The meager information obtained the day before was to the effect that the marooned yacht-owner had taken refuge in one of the shacks near the granite docks in the upper part of the village.
You couldn't go to any of these sailor shacks down here, and the big summer hotel over yonder isn't any place for a sick man, let alone a lady without her trunk.
The shacks were not the same; there was only a torn dilapidation on the farther side of the opening, only the vacuous shells of buildings stood on the nearer side.
The steam dummy passed the last house, and the negro shacks sprawling beyond, and began to puff and cough up the steep slope.
Spence secured the land at a slight rental, and here tents and scrap-timber shacks did something to keep out the bitter winds of winter.
To his left, too far away to be distinguished except as an irregular blackness against the softer gray of the valley behind, lay the black peak of Crenshaw Hill, the fatal shattered entries beyond it, the mourning shacks of Hewintown near it.
Now he had a view of the head of the ramp, and the shacks on both sides.
North of its base, on a wide bowl-like opening, the shacks and stockades for certain convict miners were built.
Other shacks had caught fire and burned hotly, and she had wept with sympathy for the owners.
She encouraged the building of claim-shacks and urged firmness in holding possession of them.
They needed help, so they could hurry back and slide those other shacks off their claims and into Antelope Coulee where they had slid the others.
Thus far the boys had been wholly occupied with getting their shacks built and in rustling cooking outfits and getting themselves settled upon their claims with an air of convincing permanency.
The shacks were moved off eighties that you have filed upon, Mr. Green.
Seems like there's been quite a crop of shacks grown up since I rode over this way," Weary announced suddenly, returning from a brief scurry after the leaders, that inclined too much toward the south in their travel.
We all know perfectly well who dragged those shacksoff the claims last night.
Besides that the Honorable Blake had told them that moving the shacks would accomplish no real, permanent good.
All the shacks I've seen so far have been stuck up on bald pinnacles where the blizzards will hit 'em coming and going next winter.
But there were others going up--shacks whose owners he did not know.
Irish dipped down the steep slope into Antelope Coulee, cursing the sprinkle of new shacks that stood stark in the dawn on every ridge and every hilltop, look where one might.
For one thing, more contests had been filed and more shacks built upon claims belonging to the Happy Family.
They did not attempt to move the shacks of the later contestants off their claims.
For it was not the claim-shacks in its path which alone were threatened.
Andy hated the sight of claim-shacks with a hatred born of long range experience and the vital interests of the cattleman.
Undoubtedly there were shacks in the United States in worse condition, but he hoped their number was small.
A quarter of a mile ahead of them lay the scattered shacks of the town, and as they drew nearer to it the riders could see the flashes of guns and the smoke-fog lying close to the ground.
When we get them out of the way we can take Jackson's store an' use one of the other shacks and wait for the Bar-20 to ride in.
It was mid-afternoon when he topped a rise and saw below him the handful of shacks making up the town.
Frisbie was sitting up for him when he reached the white tents of the engineers' camp pitched a little apart from the MacMorrogh conglomeration of shacks and storehouses.
Some are nothing but rafts made of water-soaked logs, bearing tiny shacks knocked together out of driftwood and old patches of tin and canvas, but the larger ones have barges, or the hulks of old launches, as their foundation.
This is "Latta University," consisting of a few flimsy shacks in the negro village of Oberlin, on the outskirts of Raleigh.
When the overflow came at last the shacks of the construction gang were swept away, and the little dog was seen no more.
Several log cabins and a number of tents stood near it; and shacks and tents dotted the gullies around.
Rough and Ready was another conglomeration of tents new and old, bough lean-tos, and shacks covered with canvas.
Squatters they were appropriately named, because they paid no attention to land titles, but stuck their shacks wherever fancy indicated or convenience dictated.
Where's the road leadin' down to that row of shacks by the lake?
The shacks of the squatter settlement were dark and silent, save for a slender little light glimmering from the side of the curtains of the Skinner shanty.
The shacks were all burned, and somebody sank the cookhouse scow.
Two or three buildings, typical logging-camp shacks of split cedar, rose back from the beach.
Morning, noon, and night the eaves of the shacks dripped steadily, the gaunt limbs of the hardwoods were a line of coursing drops, and through all the vast reaches of fir and cedar the patter of rain kept up a dreary monotone.
And when she looked over the port bow and saw in behind Halfway Point the huddled shacks of her brother's camp where so much had overtaken her, she experienced a swift rush of thankfulness that she was--as she was.
Of course, to start with, I'll just build littleshacks and cabins.
Richter to Hugh and Arthur, who stuck close to his side, "we ought to find out if there is any sort of suitable building in this collection of shacks and small houses.
Several badly wounded men had already been helped back to the settlement where these foreigners lived in shacks and even tents.
It had sidetracked the private car attached to the rear of the last pullman and was puffing away westward, when Ashton guided his running team in among the crude shacks of the town.
Each fell silent and gazed soberly down at the dozen scattered shacks that marked the end of their outward trip.
As the battalion left the outskirts of Jaro, with Company L in the lead, it came under fire from Japanese who were dug in under shacks along the road.
Two tanks were called up, and after they had knocked over the shacks the infantrymen closed in and destroyed the enemy.
The companies were stopped by fire that came from an unusual fortification--a star-shaped fort, with a tin roof, which looked like three or four native shacks in a cluster.
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