ing.

"We will get the wagon up first, and then the mush will be the reward
for our exertions," replied Nealie. She was bustling about with feverish
anxiety now, for she had felt a spot of rain, and it was too dreadful to
think what might happen if a downpour began before their belongings
could be got under shelter.

"Yes, we will get the wagon up first," echoed Rupert, for he too had
felt a spot of rain and was as anxious as Nealie to get the wagon right
way up once more. "Leave Ducky to look after the mush and do you two
come and help us here, for every ounce tells, you know."

Don and Billykins came at a run and collected stones, which Rupert
wedged under the wheel every time Nealie and Sylvia managed to jack it a
trifle higher. But what hard work it was! The perspiration poured from
the faces of the two girls, and Rupert panted with haste and exertion as
he struggled with the stones which Don and Billykins brought in lavish
abundance.

"Hurrah, she rises!" cried Sylvia in a jubilant tone.

"We can pull her up now, if we are careful!" yelled Rupert, who was to
the full as much excited; and then, calling to the small boys to come
and pull, the three of them hung on to the rope, putting all their
strength into the task, while Nealie and Sylvia, chanting a funny
refrain:

"Heave ho, my boys, heave ho,
With strength of arm, and might and main,
Heave ho, my boys, heave ho!"

bent to the task of lifting with the iron bar. The wagon shivered and
trembled like a live thing, swayed, rocked, and finally with a jarring
crash settled on its four wheels once more, while ringing hurrahs broke
from the hard-working five, which were echoed in Ducky's shrillest
treble.

It was at this moment that Rumple hove in sight again, clinging in a
very undignified fashion to the neck of Rockefeller, while the old horse
came on at a lumbering trot, warranted to stir up the most sluggish
liver.

"What is all the row about?" he demanded, when Rockefeller, stopping
short with disconcerting suddenness, pitched him off anyhow on to a pile
of mattresses, tinware, and other miscellaneous properties.

"We are so delighted to see you back, for one thing, and for another we
are rejoicing to have our house on wheels standing erect on all-fours,"
said Nealie, just stopping to give him a big hug, and then, running up
to the horse, she dropped a resounding kiss on his nose, held a lump of
sugar out for the wise animal to eat, and th