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drawing upon the flat rock, which had served
them for a dinner-table, the plan.

“ Here, you see, must be the door—here a
a window—here the roof—there the stone
chimney. This is the outside. Inside I shall
have a fire-place and furnace. Here shall be
the furnace, built of stone. I am going to try
experiments in colors.”

Bessie—It is funny to see you take out
that piece of chalk, and when you have made
a few dashes and scrawls, look up as if the
thing was already done to a T.

Tom.—It is done in my mind.

Bessve.—We shall bring it nearer to done,
by getting some more stuff together.

Tom.—tThat’s you, Bessie! Somehow we
go together just like a bow and arrow. The
bow could do nothing without the arrow, and
the arrow nothing without the bow.

So the children went to work and collected |
a heap of stones and more wood, and laid
them on the spot chosen for the house.

“‘ How short the day has been,” said Tom,
after they had worked a couple of hours.