"
"Why, what have we to do besides putting up the tents and shifting over
here?"
"In the first place we have to build a house, and that will take a long
while. Then we ought to make a little garden, and sow the seeds which
your father brought from England with him."
"0h! that will be nice; where shall we make it, Ready?"
"We must put a fence across that point of land, and dig up all the
brushwood; the mould is very good."
"Then what next?"
"Then we shall want a storehouse for all the things we have got, and
all that are in the wood and on the beach: and consider what a many
trips we shall have to make with the little boat to bring them all
round."
"Yes, that is very true, Ready. Have we anything more to do?"
"Plenty; we have to build a turtle-pond and a fish-pond, and a
bathing-place for Juno to wash the children in. But first we must make
a proper well at the spring, so as to have plenty of fresh water: now
there's enough for a year's hard work at least."
"Well, let us once get mamma and the children here, and we will work
hard."
"I should wish very much to see it all done, William," said Ready. "I
hope my life will be spared till it is done, at all events.
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