FENCES. 179

* Did he?”

“Yes; and when I get home, I am going
to make some little fences.”

“So I would,” said Jonas. “You might
turn your little sand-garden, in the corner of
the yard, into a farm, and have a pasture,
and mowing field, and corn-field, and garden,
and then enclose all the different fields with
different kinds of fences.”

“So we can,” said Rollo, clapping his
hands.

“No, we can’t,” said Lucy; “we can’t
make the little fences.”

“Yes,” said Jonas, “I think you might.
You might make very good ones with a
knife and a gimlet.”

“What should we do for boards,” said
Lucy, ‘“‘to make a board fence ?”

“OQ, we could split up shingles,” said
Rollo.

“Yes,” said Jonas, “and you could use
twine for withes. I can show you how to
put it on.”

“And we can make a stone wall very
easily,” said Lucy, “for we can pick up the
stones all about the yard.”

“Yes,” said Jonas, ‘though it is not very