He stuck it out toward her.
"There, take it for you," he said.

This was by way of comfort.
Em opened it and found a small bit of gum, a commodity prized by the children; but the great tears dropped down slowly on to it.
Waldo was distressed.

He had cried so much in his morsel of life that tears in another seemed to burn him.
"If," he said, stepping in awkwardly and standing by the table, "if you will not cry I will tell you something--a secret." "What is that ?" asked Em, instantly becoming decidedly better.
"You will tell it to no human being ?" "No." He bent nearer to her, and with deep solemnity said: "I have made a machine!" Em opened her eyes.
"Yes; a machine for shearing sheep.

It is almost done," said the boy.
"There is only one thing that is not right yet; but it will be soon.
When you think, and think, and think, all night and all day, it comes at last," he added mysteriously.
"Where is it ?" "Here! I always carry it here," said the boy, putting his hand to his breast, where a bulging-out was visible.

"This is a model.