Ernest and Jack will assist me; and perhaps you, papa." I declared my willingness, but named him the _master-mason;_ we must only be his workmen.

Francis was impatient to see the mill in operation.
"Oh!" said Jack, "you shall soon have that pleasure.

It is a mere trifle; we only want stone, wood, tools, and science." At the word "_science_," Ernest, who was reading in a corner, without listening to us, raised his head suddenly, saying,--"What science are you in need of ?" "Of one you know nothing of, Mr.Philosopher," said Jack.

"Come, tell us, do you know how to build a mill ?" "A mill ?" answered Ernest; "of what description?
There are many sorts.
I was just looking in my dictionary for it.

There are corn-mills, and powder-mills, oil-mills, wind-mills, water-mills, hand-mills, and saw-mills; which do you want ?" Fritz would have liked them all.
"You remind me," said I, "that we brought from the vessel a hand-mill and a saw-mill, taken to pieces, to be sure, but numbered and labelled, so that they could be easily united: they should be in the magazine, where you found the anvil and iron bars; I had forgotten them." "Let us go and examine them," said Fritz, lighting his lantern; "I shall get some ideas from them." "Rather," said his mother, "they will spare you the trouble of thinking and labouring." I sent them all four to seek these treasures, which, heaped in an obscure corner of the store-room, had escaped my recollection.