my second rows of stakes, or piles, and in this wicker-working all the
summer, or dry season, when another business took me up more time than
it could be imagined I could spare.
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The first shipbuilding failure Crusoe spent five months in cutting down a large iron tree, chopping and whittling it, and making it into a very decent canoe for the purpose of escaping from the island, but as a result, it was too big to make it go down to the sea, and had to throw it away. However, every failure taught him something he didn't know before.