The doers . a mis-take, and she ran faster than ever; and shepassed David, and she was running so fastthat her bushy tail did nt stick up in the airat all, but straight out behind. And David came where the foreman wasstanding, waiting for him, and the foremanshowed him where he wanted the rubbishpiled to be burned, far from the house. And the foreman and David worked to-gether, and they piled the rubbish into thecart; and when it was full, they dragged thecart over to the place, and they emptiedthe rubbish out of it. Then the foreman took a match out of hispocket, and he scratched the match on
The doers . a mis-take, and she ran faster than ever; and shepassed David, and she was running so fastthat her bushy tail did nt stick up in the airat all, but straight out behind. And David came where the foreman wasstanding, waiting for him, and the foremanshowed him where he wanted the rubbishpiled to be burned, far from the house. And the foreman and David worked to-gether, and they piled the rubbish into thecart; and when it was full, they dragged thecart over to the place, and they emptiedthe rubbish out of it. Then the foreman took a match out of hispocket, and he scratched the match on histrousers-leg, and he lighted the pile of rub-bish. And a little thin column of smoke went THE CLEARING-UP STORY 119 up, and then it blazed, and then it eraekled,and the foreman and David went back foranother load. The foreman and David worked for a longtime, getting loads of rubbish, and draggingthem over to the lire. Then the foreman would take up the cart,all filled with little odds and ends of sticks. BURNING RUBBISH and with shavings and with twigs and theends of laths, and he would turn the cart up- 120 THE DOERS side down over the fire, and empty all thatstuff out. Then David would drag the cart back. The other man was working with a rakeall this long time, raking over the placeswhere the foreman and David had been, andhe raked the pieces of plaster and the otherstuff that would nt burn into little heaps. Suddenly they heard the rattle of thewagon, and they all looked up. And thewagon stopped, and the man who had beendriving jumped off, and the horse just stoodwhere he had stopped, and he breathed hardand looked after the man, and he prickedhis ears forward. Then the foreman told the men to get allthat stuff into the wagon, and he waved hishand toward the heaps of rubbish that hadbeen raked up. So the man held out his hand toward theHorse, and he whistled, and the horse came,and he followed the men to the farthest pileof rubbish. And the men took shovels and shoveled
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