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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