The doers . ate when he went, be-cause his mother had taken him with herdown to the Square to do an errand, andwhen he came back he had to change hisclothes and put on his overalls. His motherwould nt let him wear his overalls down tothe Square. THE DINNER-TIME AND JONAH STORY 23 And when he had his overalls on, he hur-ried and got his cart and his shovel and hishoe, and he called his cat, and she came run-ning, with her bushy tail sticking straightup in the air. And he hurried to the new house, drag-ging his cart; and his shovel and his hoerattled in the bottom of it. The mortar man saw him.
The doers . ate when he went, be-cause his mother had taken him with herdown to the Square to do an errand, andwhen he came back he had to change hisclothes and put on his overalls. His motherwould nt let him wear his overalls down tothe Square. THE DINNER-TIME AND JONAH STORY 23 And when he had his overalls on, he hur-ried and got his cart and his shovel and hishoe, and he called his cat, and she came run-ning, with her bushy tail sticking straightup in the air. And he hurried to the new house, drag-ging his cart; and his shovel and his hoerattled in the bottom of it. The mortar man saw him. Hello, he said. Hello, said the littleboy. Did you wonderwhere I was? I did that, said themortar man. Well, I had to go on anerrand with my mother,fche little boy said, but Ihurried and came as soon as I could, andhere I am. Do you want some sand ? But the mortar man did nt want anymore sand then. He filled his hod with mor-tar, and he stooped down and took the hodof mortar on his shoulder, and he went trot-. THE MORTAR MAN 24 THE DOERS ting* to the ladder, and lie went down theladder. Then the little boy could nt see him, be-cause the cellar walls were done and thecarpenters had come, and they had put onthe great square beams that lie on top ofthe cellar walls, and they had put in thebeams that go across from one side to theother and hold up the floors. But there were some men in the cellar,for the little boy could hear them laughingand talking. And the mortar man had told him thatthey were the bricklayers who were buildingthe chimneys and two of the masons whowere smearing mortar over all the cracks ofthe wall, so that the water wouldnt leakthrough from the ground into the cellar. The little boy wished that he could seethose men, but he was afraid that it wouldnt be being careful to go down that ladder,and he did nt think he could do it, anyway,for the steps were too far apart. So he looked about and he saw the man who THE DINNER-TIME AND JONAH STORY 25 had held the handles o
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