cart.

When the cart was filled, the man tossed his shovel on top of the dirt
and started walking along.

"Come along, Jack," he said.

The horse had had his ears pricked forward, and when the man said that,
he started and followed the man to the end of the yellow dirt.

There he stopped, and the man took his shovel off the cart and threw
it on the ground. And he took the backboard out of the cart, and he
put his knee on the cart, and the top tipped back and slid all that
dirt out in a heap on the ground.

Then the horse walked along two steps, and the man took his shovel and
scraped out what was left in the cart, and he tipped the top of the
cart back again and he put the backboard in.

And he got up into the cart, and the horse turned around and walked
back to the pile to get another load.

David wanted to ask somebody some questions about the dirt, but he
didn't know any of the men, and they all seemed to be very busy.

So he just watched; and he saw another man come, and he had a shovel,
and he spread around the dirt in the heap that the cart had just
dumped until it was pretty even and smooth.

And the horse came, bringing another load, and that was dumped, and
the man spread that around with his shovel.

David went nearer, and the man saw him.

"Are you going to plant some little trees?" David asked.

"We're going to sow grass seed here," the man answered, "when this is
all covered with loam."

Then another load of loam came, and he was busy with his shovel, and
David went back to watch the other men plant trees.

They were planting more little Christmas trees near that first one,
five trees in a kind of a clump, and David watched them dig the holes
and put the trees in, and spread the roots about, and put dirt on them,
and stamp the dirt down hard, and put the water in.

And when the Christmas trees were all planted, they put another kind
at the back corner of the house.

Then they went to the front corner of the house, and one of them said
that there was the place for the lilac bushes.

And he got the lilac bushes and cut off a part of the roots while the
other men were digging the holes, and they planted the lilac bushes in
the holes, but they didn't do it so carefully as they had with the
other kinds of trees.

And when they had the holes filled up and the water turned off, and
the planting of lilac bushes all finished, they stopped and leaned on
their shovels and looked around, to see