"
"Then we'll put those casks in, for they take up a great deal of room."
"All but that large one, William; we shall want that. I shall fix it up
in a corner."
"What for, Ready?"
"To put water in."
"But we are closer to the spring than we were at the other house."
"I know that; but, perhaps, we may not be able to go out of the
stockade, and then we shall want water."
"I understand, Ready; how thoughtful you are!"
"If at my age I did not think a little, William, it would be very odd.
You don't know how anxious I am to see them all inside of this
defence."
"But why should we not come in, Ready?"
"Why, sir, as there is still plenty of work, I do not like to press the
matter, lest your mamma should be fidgeted, and think there was danger;
but danger there is; I have a kind of forewarning of it. I wish you
would propose that they should come in at once; the standing-bed places
are all ready, except the canvas, and I shall nail on new by to-night."
In consequence of this conversation, William proposed at dinnertime
that the next day they should go into the new house, as it was so much
more handy to work there and live there at the same time.
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