146 BRAGGADOCIO.

said Tom, springing into the open doorway.
Howard followed.

There was the furnace built up of brick,
with the iron pot nicely set in it; and there
was the chimney of stone, the holes filled up
with mortar.

“A very comfortable log-cabin,” said
Howard, “ for a back-woodsman. Do you
know, a few years ago, I thought everybody
in the United States lived in log-cabins.”

“Did you, indeed? I never saw one be-
fore,” said Tom, “ but I have often seen pic-
tures of them, and knew that they must be
put together like a cob-house, only that the
ends of the logs must be cut with an axe,
as you see, so that they will fit close to-
gether.”

“This is nice!” exclaimed Howard, seating
himself upon a stone which Tom placed for a
chair. ‘ What are you going to do here ?”

“Try experiments in dyeing, and other
chemical experiments.”

“Then you are going to be a dyer!”

ms N a actly ; I am going to be a chemist.”

“And I wi! be an architect. Yes; that is