what else they had to do.

The loam was all over the yellow dirt, and the last load was just
being spread around.

So some of the men went to get the grass seed. That grass seed was in
green bags.

And they took up bags of grass seed and began walking slowly along
over the ground, and they took up handfuls of the grass seed and
scattered it in the air so that it fell evenly over the ground.

And they sowed the seed all among the trees they had just planted, and
all over the smooth dirt, and wherever they wanted the grass to grow;
but they didn't sow it in the paths.

Then two other men came, and they were dragging a great heavy stone
roller behind them.

It was so heavy that the two men had to walk very slowly, each
dragging it by one handle.

And they went to and fro over the ground where the grass seed had been
sown, and they rolled it down smooth and hard and shiny.

Before the roller men had got through, the others had gone and put on
their coats and gathered up their tools; and David knew that they were
through their work.

So he went where he had left his cart, and he looked for the pretend
little boy, but he had gone away, and David couldn't find him. And he
looked for his cat, and he couldn't see her either.

So he took up the handle of his cart, and he walked along to his house,
dragging his cart, with his shovel and his hoe and the chestnuts all
rattling together in the bottom of it.

And that's all.

XII

THE POLE-MEN STORY

Once upon a time there was a little boy, and he was almost five years
old, and his name was David. And there weren't any other children near
for him to play with, so he used to play happily all by himself.

He had his cat and his cart and his shovel and his hoe, and he always
wore his overalls when he was playing.

One morning he had just started to wander along the road toward the
corner of the next street.

He wasn't allowed to go beyond that corner, but he could look and see
what was coming, and perhaps he could see the postman and the black
dog.

His cat was walking along beside him, looking up into his face, and he
was dragging his cart, with his shovel and his hoe rattling in the
bottom of it, for he might want to play in the sand of the gutter.

But before he got more than halfway to the corner, he heard a great
rattling and shouting, and two horses came around the corner.

They made a very wide turn, because they were dragging a wagon, and
behin