Show snow houses in the arctic A snow house Is the most adapts adaptable of dwellings it if it gets too warm either for the comfort of 0 the inhabitants or because the roof begins to thaw you can lower the temperature by enlarging the ventilating hole with your knife it it gets too cold you make the hole smaller by stuffing a mitten into it it if the root roof begins to thaw because it Is made of blocks that are too thick you send a man out with a long knife or machete and he ha thins them down until the frost without neutralizes the heat from within find and the thawing stops stop but if YOU yoa have me made de your root roof too thin and hoarfrost hoar boar frost begins to form from your breath and from the steam that rises rise crom the cook cooking irig then a man goe out with a shovel instead ofa of a knife and throws a little soft snow on the roof to blanket it from the excessive excess lv told harpers magazine |