3/27 Here you two boys may as well do something for your bread and butter." Dick said something to himself answering to nineteenth-century Bother! and awaited his father's orders. Get a rope round it and haul. Leave it." "Yes, father," said Dick with a sigh of relief, for it was more pleasant to stand watching the men cutting the peat and the birds flying over, or to idle about the place, than to be dragging along a great sodden mass of pine-root. "I don't want the men to leave their work. You three donkeys can drag it up between you." The boys laughed. |