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The Wouldbegoods

CHAPTER 2
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You know.

The one where they chop the wood.' We got the door.
We had never made a raft, any of us, but the way to make rafts is better described in books, so we knew what to do.
We found some nice little tubs stuck up on the fence of the farm garden, and nobody seemed to want them for anything just then, so we took them.
Denny had a box of tools someone had given him for his last birthday; they were rather rotten little things, but the gimlet worked all right, so we managed to make holes in the edges of the tubs and fasten them with string under the four corners of the old door.

This took us a long time.

Albert's uncle asked us at dinner what we had been playing at, and we said it was a secret, and it was nothing wrong.

You see we wished to atone for Dicky's mistake before anything more was said.


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