For days and days he had been hauling logs from the creek bottoms and splitting them into thin, long slabs.

日复一日， 他一直在从溪底拖运原木， 并将它们劈成又薄又长的板材。

Around the door hole and the window holes, Pa and Mr. Edwards nailed thin slabs against the cut ends of the logs.

在门洞和窗洞周围，爸爸和爱德华兹先生在原木的切割端钉上了薄板。