"Even me schoolbooks were never mine.

Lord! How I used to wish I could have just one of them for me very own! Won't it be fun to see me sawbird and me little yellow fellow looking at me from the pages of a book, and their real names and all about them printed alongside?
How long will it be taking, sir ?" "Ten days should do it nicely," said McLean.

Then, seeing Freckles' lengthening face, he added: "I'll have Duncan bring you a ten-bushel store-box the next time he goes to town.

He can haul it to the west entrance and set it up wherever you want it.

You can put in your spare time filling it with the specimens you find until the books come, and then you can study out what you have.