They were expected to spin and weave, pasture llamas and alpacas, work in the fields, gather firewood, make chicha, cook, and clean the house. |
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The victim grabbed a piece of firewood to fend off his attacker and one of the attacking group brandished a pair of garden loppers. |
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Chukchi men drive their reindeer in search of vegetation and travel to the edge of the taiga to gather firewood, fish, and hunt sea mammals. |
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We've lost a number of potted plants, tarps and firewood covers over the years. |
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In addition to saving money, families using solar ovens no longer spend hours searching for firewood. |
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Life inside the reserve is harsh, as the Bushmen are banned from hunting, gathering and collecting firewood. |
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The Fellows use draft horses to spread manure, rake hay, and move fences, water, firewood and hay around the farm. |
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If you are going to use the tree for firewood it must be seasoned properly. |
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Well seasoned firewood is easier to start, produces more heat, and burns cleaner. |
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Traditionally, the Sabars made their living from selling firewood and leaves from kendu trees, used to make hand-rolled cigarettes, called bidis. |
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In went several hundred eucalypts, as shelter belts and windbreaks, and for firewood and fenceposts in years to come. |
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The Mesolithic hunters may have carried the firewood from lower slopes up to the campsite, which today stands far above the treeline. |
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Women trek along, carrying huge loads of eucalyptus branches on their backs for firewood. |
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Substituting LPG with more efficient and cheaper fuels such as biogas of firewood can minimise the escalating costs. |
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Years ago I sometimes had fun in rooms like these, sitting on stacks of firewood and drinking shots of whiskey with friends. |
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The three families need to stockpile enough food, shelter, and firewood to last a Montanan winter. |
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The firewood, soaked in oil, blazed up immediately, and his boat became a beacon of flame, drifting downstream towards Lake Tallian. |
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Food is prepared in an umu, an oven dug in the earth and filled with firewood and basalt rocks. |
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The soggy firewood was gathered, tents put up, and a line strung between trees to hang the wet gear to dry. |
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As a boy, when Harman wasn't chopping firewood, breaking broncs or working a local ranch, he was drawing. |
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Most of them didn't believe in modern machinery, so they had to laboriously cut their firewood with bucksaws. |
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Some of the material was used for firewood and some for traditional fencing and viga poles used in southwestern houses. |
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Stair spindles and a banister had also been ripped out and used as firewood while glass carpeted the floors. |
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A century ago, this was a muddy thoroughfare for burros and carts carrying firewood down from the mountains. |
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Mesquite firewood purchased from local woodcutters replaces nonrenewable fossil fuels that must be purchased off the Reservation. |
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Besides that, firewood adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, while furniture or other products will act as a carbon sink for years and years. |
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With shaking hands you gather twigs and sticks from the firewood basket and coax the last embers of the fire to wake up too. |
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She only offered a gracious giggle before kneeling down to gather nearby sticks and branches for firewood. |
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Hagstock is local dialect for a wooden chopping block for cutting firewood on. |
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To cut the cost, savvy bosses burnt firewood, chaff and coal cinders in addition to the coal briquettes and balls. |
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Seconds later, I heard a dull clunk as he placed the firewood on the floor. |
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For four decades now, he has been working in a firewood shop as a daily wage labourer till recently and is now a commission agent. |
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Stem and leaves are pretty useful for feeding the goats, or they're dried and used for firewood, fencing and roofing materials. |
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It is also a source of medicines for traditional healers and is used extensively for fencing, rope, firewood and building materials. |
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Tree crops supply shade, fodder, leaf or bark mulch, firewood, shelter, soil protection and fencing. |
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Rivers froze and supplies of coal and firewood, already scarce over the autumn, were immobilized. |
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With the discovery of gold, mining became a major consumer of firewood and rough timber. |
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Ethiopia has an oil refinery, but derives most of its energy from firewood, charcoal, and dung. |
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The most devastating impact came from cutting trees for firewood and charcoal. |
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As we were fairly late arriving, all the good camping spots were gone and so was all the firewood. |
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For now, her family survives on seeds and grains, and selling firewood in the local market. |
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After a couple of decades in one area, firewood was cut, game was hunted out, and farm fields were depleted. |
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A man was working in the woods collecting firewood when he came upon a snake wedged in the crevice of a tree. |
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The mother built the fire, the children kept the firebox filled, and the father cut the firewood. |
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When the wood has been neglected, it is made into barbeque charcoal and logs for firewood. |
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Among the products currently manufactured are indoor and garden furnishings, charcoal and firewood. |
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The smoke emanating from the firewood used for cooking infused a spirit of celebration into the atmosphere. |
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But the weather did not let up and eventually the last piece of firewood was burnt and used up. |
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This last item may not have been firewood though, for Thomas Walton practised coopery as a second craft. |
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P T Barnum tells a story about how his grandfather tricked a woodchopper into cutting up a cord of firewood for him. |
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Alone at home in the evening, after splitting a goodly portion of a cord of firewood I am hungry, but tired. |
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The lower level is used to house livestock, fodder, food, and firewood, while the upper story holds the living quarters. |
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Escalation in firewood prices and air pollution led to the establishment of electric crematoria. |
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Every household sports a solar-powered stove, an ingenious device that saves valuable firewood. |
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The cellar was searched and, hidden amid the large quantity of firewood stored there, 36 barrels of gunpowder were found, along with fuses. |
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What's more, the howlers' habitat was being deforested for agricultural uses and for firewood. |
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About every 15 years the nearby supplies of wild game and firewood would become depleted, and the farmed soil would become exhausted. |
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The burgeoning populations of this area is contributing to its desertification by clearing forest for agriculture as well as for firewood. |
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Many have reverted to despoiling the nearest remaining forest for firewood. |
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He intended to keep things that way, repelling would-be graziers, firewood cutters and poachers with an iron hand. |
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Men working in the wood said they were felling the trees for firewood because they were diseased and dangerous. |
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Children are expected to help carry water, collect firewood, and run errands for their mothers. |
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The new law also applies to petrol pumps, alcohol dispensers, weighbridges, industrial scales, firewood and even rubbish dumped at the tip. |
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An embargo against the military junta of the day meant they couldn't sell the coffee right away, but they still needed firewood to cook. |
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He finishes off with a wonk's analysis of sustainable firewood projections for the next 60 years. |
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As well as firewood, the Country Park is now introducing woodchips and mulch to their range of recycled wood produce. |
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In catchment areas, households plant trees on individual plots and cut firewood and harvest grass for their zero-grazed cows. |
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When they were condemned to gather firewood from hills, their punishment could be commuted to a payment of 300 coins per month. |
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To reduce firewood consumption and fire rings, backpackers started carrying small portable stoves. |
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Will his wife appreciate his artistry or will she have him cut it up for firewood to keep her warm? |
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The summer months were the time when the villagers would collectively gather, grow and store firewood and food to help tide the long winter months. |
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Convenience is their strong suit and in general they are fine when time is an issue and you want a quick fire without all the muss and fuss of natural firewood. |
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They have to go out every day and collect water and collect firewood. |
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I also found a tricked out rusty red wagon, still in working condition, that we immediately put into service as a wood toter for Greg as he chopped firewood into kindling. |
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And, while you're here, stop by one of the two heated warming shelters where you'll find Franklin stoves, picnic tables and an ample supply of firewood. |
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He was also well aware that many of the reservation's sixty-five hundred residents lived near the creek bottoms that provided pasturage and a ready supply of firewood. |
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Activities such as slash-and-burn cultivation, logging for firewood, and livestock pasturage by the landless seem to have been tolerated in commonly owned village forests. |
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Actually the Santa myth goes back to a Lapp man in folk history who used to cut firewood and give it to the poor during the winters, who also carved wooden toys for children. |
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On common lands they could pasture a cow and gather firewood. |
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They can power an irrigation pump or a buzz saw for bucking firewood. |
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A small outdoor television satellite dish sticks out of tall grass alongside a few piles of firewood. |
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If you have firewood in the state, you have to have the source documentation. |
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People in Tanzania cook using firewood at home with smog around them. |
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His duties consisted of grooming the magistrate's horse, cleaning out the stable, cutting firewood and keeping clean the dry earth closet out in the yard. |
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When I had taken all the firewood creme de la creme the van could way beyond reasonably carry, I inched on up to the house and added it all to the pile. |
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There was time for more climbing and hiking in the summer, and then came canning, the root vegetable harvest, and weeks of chopping firewood for the winter. |
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Sitting at their rough-hewn wooden table, I watch through the window as their father collects cedar firewood from a jumbled pile near the box-car. |
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He and his first wife lived in Roundway Park and he had a sideline in collecting fallen timber at Leipzig Plantation on Roundway Down and selling it for firewood. |
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Trees also provide shelter, shade, leaf mulch, fencing and firewood. |
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There's not enough firewood and Uncle Boris grows weaker by the day. |
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One of the clearest memories I have of my mother was one time when my brothers and sisters had returned from the forest after collecting firewood. |
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Gorse and broom are used for cattle bedding and eucalyptus for firewood. |
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Travelling by a separate route, a customised lorry, truck and trailer carry all our supplies, including 3,000 litres of water and a ton each of horse feed and firewood. |
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She saw women carrying firewood, and how long it took, how strenuous, and the effect it was having on their health. |
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If nothing is done about this the trees will never attain their potential value as high quality sawlog and may only be suited to the low value firewood market. |
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That was an interesting interview, but I would have to question this idea that bottled gas provides a cleaner alternative to firewood for Africa. |
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It has two kitchens and pantries, a firewood room, an Arizona room, screen porches, closets, and no telling what else. |
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When we stopped for a snack, Ingrid pulled two flasks of glogg from her bottomless backpack, followed by biscuits and then firewood. |
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More than a tonne of firewood was illegally sold per day in local bazaar by residents and strongmen, the official claimed. |
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After many days of hard work, we finally had enough firewood for the winter. |
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It seems that most seeds are foodful in the arid regions, most berries edible, and many shrubs good for firewood with the sap in them. |
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Thirdly, trees that usually would have intercepted rain water had been cut down for firewood or to make space for animals. |
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The prisoners destroyed much of the cathedral woodwork for firewood but Prior Castell's Clock, which featured the Scottish thistle, was spared. |
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Undercrofts were common features at the time, used to house a variety of materials including food and firewood. |
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More gunpowder was brought into the room, along with firewood to conceal it. |
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Inside, the barrels of gunpowder were discovered hidden under piles of firewood and coal. |
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There was very little military action, and Orwell was shocked by the lack of munitions, food, and firewood, and other extreme deprivations. |
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The forests were heavily exploited over the centuries for firewood and timber. |
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Teak and nonteak firewood prices had multiplied tenfold and fivefold, respectively. |
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The cord is a unit of measure of dry volume used in Canada and the United States to measure firewood and pulpwood. |
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Beech wood is an excellent firewood, easily split and burning for many hours with bright but calm flames. |
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The public is being cautioned not to transport unfinished wood products, such as firewood, to slow the spread of this insect pest. |
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By 1800, much of Cape Cod's firewood had to be transported by boat from Maine. |
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Humans hunted wild animals for meat and gathered food, firewood, and materials for their tools, clothes, or shelters. |
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The smaller of the two boats, perhaps 19 meters long and made of pine, was hacked up and used as firewood by troops. |
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Cartier and his men prepared for the winter by strengthening their fort, stacking firewood, and salting down game and fish. |
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They were probably trying to get out of the tundra into forested country to obtain sables and firewood. |
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They might alternatively be required to chop firewood, clean the wards, or carry out other domestic tasks. |
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All the wood required for construction and firewood must be hauled in from some distance. |
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Split and stacked a rick of firewood so perfectly aligned you didn't want to take away an armload to burn? |
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This is true whether we are talking about firewood, charcoal, whale oil, coal, nuclear, or petroleum. |
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An Army jawan tried to molest a 23-year-old student in a village when she was out to collect firewood. |
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When Aden had become a crown colony in 1937, the main landward imports were qat, firewood and fodder. |
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Huge trucks trundle into the capital each day, stacked high with firewood, fatwood, and mounds of charcoal sacks. |
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Wubo, a villager of Li village, wanted to use the wheat straw as firewood, and carried home several cartloads of it. |
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While living in an abandoned structure connected to a cottage, he grew fond of the poor family living there, and discreetly collected firewood for them. |
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George Kennan, an American working on the Western Union Telegraph Expedition in the late 1860s, found that dog sled travel on the lower Anadyr was limited by lack of firewood. |
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We cut down the limbless tree for firewood, it was dead anyways. |
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The following on the list was that the measure of firewood had to be practiced here, and for each measure a woodcutter and a woman had to be the wood carrier. |
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Wolf Creek Pass Yurt, just below the Continental Divide, offers plentiful firewood for the woodstove, an equipped kitchen, and futon bunk beds for six people. |
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Handy storage and pass-through for firewood Like an unobtrusive butler, this two-sided woodbin stands at the ready but literally blends into the woodwork. |
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