THE INSPECTION. , 41

* What is that, Robert?” said Lucy.

“ This is the tool-box,” said Robert.

« What is it for?” asked Lucy.

«“ Why, I always carry about a tool-box at the
inspection,” said Robert. “ Because, sometimes
father finds something broken, that he can mend
at once upon the spot.”

By this time he came up to where Lucy was

standing, and he put down the box upon the great
stone step, so that she .could look into it. The
box was not very deep, and it was divided off,
inside, into several compartments. ‘There was
one long compartment upon one side, which ex-
tended from one end of the box to the other. In
this were several tools. There were a hammer
and a gimlet; and, besides, there were several
other tools, which Lucy did not know the
names of.
- Besides this long compartment, there were
several small, square divisions, which had nails
and screws in them, of different sizes. Lucy said
she never saw so many different kinds of nails.
While she was looking at them, Robert began to
hear the rattling of wheels in the road, and he
exclaimed aloud, —

* Q, here comes Eben.”

Lacy looked to see. A wagon, with a man

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