¶ Fire
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Fire:
“And then you began to make a stockade around so that the wild animals couldn’t get at you, naturally, or strangers. So you got a stockade and you got a chimney in the middle. Then when you first had a little time you took some more trees around, and ran some logs from the stockade to the chimney. You got a roof on this. The wind is going to be coming now. But the building was always on the antipriority. How do you get nature to keep you going. You don’t know why the little thing grows into big things, but it does, and you’ve just got to take advantage of that fact. You realize that even in the peacetime building was an antipriority-- something you did only in off moments.”
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