together, and they piled the rubbish
into the cart; and when it was full, they dragged the cart over to the
place, and they emptied the rubbish out of it.

Then the foreman took a match out of his pocket, and he scratched the
match on his trousers-leg, and he lighted the pile of rubbish.

And a little thin column of smoke went up, and then it blazed, and
then it crackled, and the foreman and David went back for another load.

The foreman and David worked for a long time, getting loads of rubbish,
and dragging them over to the fire.

[Illustration: BURNING RUBBISH]

Then the foreman would take up the cart, all filled with little odds
and ends of sticks and with shavings and with twigs and the ends of
laths, and he would turn the cart upside down over the fire, and empty
all that stuff out.

Then David would drag the cart back.

The other man was working with a rake all this long time, raking over
the places where the foreman and David had been, and he raked the
pieces of plaster and the other stuff that wouldn't burn into little
heaps.

Suddenly they heard the rattle of the wagon, and they all looked up.
And the wagon stopped, and the man who had been driving jumped off,
and the horse just stood where he had stopped, and he breathed hard
and looked after the man, and he pricked his ears forward.

Then the foreman told the men to get all that stuff into the wagon,
and he waved his hand toward the heaps of rubbish that had been raked
up.

So the man held out his hand toward the horse, and he whistled, and
the horse came, and he followed the men to the farthest pile of
rubbish.

And the men took shovels and shoveled the stuff into the wagon in no
time. Then they walked along to the next heap, and the horse came
after.

And they shoveled that stuff into the wagon, and they walked along to
the next heap, and the horse came after.

And so they did until they had shoveled in the last heap; and the
horse walked into the road, dragging the wagon after him, and there he
stopped.

The foreman and David had picked up all the little odds and ends of
things which would burn, and had put them on the fire.

The fire had been blazing up high, but now it wasn't blazing so high,
and it was almost burned out.

And the two men stood still, leaning on their shovels, and looked all
about.

And the foreman stood still, and he looked all about.

And David stood still, leaning on the handle of his cart, and he
looked all