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boom, a hole, four feet deep and two feet wide would open up. The residents of Kristiania and the Wolf pack would then place the trees in these holes standing on end. Even I helped. It was exhausting work. By nightfall, we were nowhere close to done, though Wolf had flattened huge swathes of the surrounding forests. Luckily, the Rednecks had not yet come. We worked through the night, and most of the next day. Once, the fifteen foot tall wall was completed, we built eleven foot tall platforms against the inside so that one could look over the wall from the inside. Next, we dug pits just outside of the wall which were filled with sharpened stakes, made from the pine branches. Finally, at Adams suggestion, we gathered pine straw and laid it in a twenty foot wide carpet that surrounded the defenses. I asked Franklin what the purpose of it was, but he only shrugged, and Adams would only say that it was a surprise. By the time the sun was low in the
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