Did you ever see a tent? This sort of house is common in warm climates. The Israelites, of whom you read in the bible, lived in tents forty years. Soldiers live in tents, when they march from home; and at night they take the canvass out of their waggons or baggage-carts, and pitch the tents in any convenient field. Four soldiers live in one tent, and lie upon clean straw, taking their knapsacks for pillows. Their guns and their swords are hung around overhead.