PUMP-MAKING. —. 163

«Why, when he gets it bored,” said Robert,
“he will finish off one end of it like a pump, and
then they’ll let the other end down into their well,
and board up close all around it, so that people
shall not fall in. Then he’ll make a handle.”

“T should think it would make rather a rough
pump, after all,” said Lucy’s mother.

« No, ma’am,” said Robert ; ‘ he’ll make a very
good pump of it. He’s a very good workman.”

“TI don’t see what makes the water come up in
a pump,” said Lacy.

‘The boxes;” replied Robert.

‘What are the boxes?” asked Lucy.

“Why, they’re — they’re — little things in the
pump. Didn’t you ever see boxes?”

Yes,” said Lucy, “a great many times.”
Lucy meant common boxes, not pump-boxes.

“Well,” said Robert, “you know the litte
clapper.” ;

No,” said Lucy; “I don’t remember any
clappers.”

“ Why, yes,” said Robert, “a little clapper
made of leather.”

* No,” said Lucy; “there is not any cla
in any of the boxes I ever saw.” yesrrs

“Then you never saw any pump-boxes,” said
Robert.

“Why,” said Lucy, “are they different from
any other kind of boxes ?”

“ Yes,” exclaimed Robert, emphatically, “ al-
together different. There is a little. leather clap-
per, that lets the water up, and then keeps it from
going down again.”