While they
put the trees in the cart and took them home, Pablo contrived to lop
off the boughs and prepare the poles for them to take away. As soon as
they had cut down sufficient and carted them home, they then selected
shorter trees for posts; and when Pablo had cleared them of the
boughs, they sawed them out the proper lengths, and then carted them
home. This occupied nearly the whole week, and then they proceeded to
dig holes and set the posts in. The railing was then to be nailed to
the posts, and that occupied them three days more; so that it was
altogether a fortnight of hard work before the three acres were
inclosed.
"There," said Humphrey, "that's a good job over; many thanks, Edward,
for your assistance; and thank you, too, Pablo, for you really have
helped us very much indeed, and are a very useful, good boy. Now for
raising the bank; that I must do when I can spare time; but my garden
is overrun with weeds, and I must get Edith and Alice to help me
there."
"If you don't want me any longer, Humphrey," said Edward, "I think I
shall go over to see Oswald, and take Pablo with me. I want to know
how that fellow Corbould is, and what he says; and whether the
intendant has come back; not that I shall go near him or his good
little daughter, but I think I may as well go, and it will be a good
opportunity of showing Pablo the way to Oswald's cottage.
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