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Title: The Doers
Author: William John Hopkins
Release Date: December 29, 2008 [EBook #27650]
Language: English
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THE DOERS
BY
WILLIAM JOHN HOPKINS
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
[Illustration]
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON--NEW YORK--CHICAGO--DALLAS
SAN FRANCISCO
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY WILLIAM JOHN HOPKINS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE
THIS BOOK OR PARTS THEREOF IN ANY FORM
_School Edition_
The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE--MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
CONTENTS
I. THE DIGGING-MEN STORY 1
II. THE MASON STORY 10
III. THE DINNER-TIME AND JONAH STORY 22
IV. THE CARPENTER STORY 34
V. THE WATER-MEN STORY 46
VI. THE SHINGLE AND CLAPBOARD STORY 57
VII. THE PLUMBER STORY 73
VIII. THE PAINTER STORY 86
IX. THE TREE-MEN STORY 101
X. THE CLEARING-UP STORY 113
XI. THE SETTING-OUT STORY 125
XII. THE POLE-MEN STORY 138
XIII. THE MOVING-MEN STORY 155
[Illustration]
I
THE DIGGING-MEN STORY
Once upon a time there was a little boy who was almost five years old.
And his mother used to let him wander about the garden and in the road
near the house, for there weren't many horses going by, and the men
who drove the horses that did go by knew the little boy and they were
careful.
So this boy wandered about and played happily by himself.
He had his cat and his cart and his shovel and his hoe, and he always
wore his overalls. And wherever he went his cat went too.
One morning he saw some men come with
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