Then she attacked Tom's image.

It took her fully fifteen minutes merely to get the thing to pieces, for the true boy-fashion in which it was tied, pinned, sewed, and nailed together, would have been a puzzle to any feminine mind.

She would have called Tom up to help her, but she was just a little bit too proud.
The broom she put out in the entry the first thing; then, remembering that that was not systematic, she carried it down stairs and hung it on its nail.

The shoes and the dresses, the cape and the cloak, the tippet and the hat, she put in their places; the torn apron and the unmended stockings she tumbled into her basket, then went back and folded them up neatly; she also made a journey into the woodshed expressly to put the hatchet where it belonged, on the chopping-block.

By this time it was quite dark, but she lighted a lamp, and went at it afresh.