"
"I think so too; and when you come back, Edward, one of us must go to
Lymington, for I require some tools, and Pablo is very ragged. He must
have some better clothes than these old ones of ours, if he is to be
sent messages. Don't you think so?"
"Certainly I do."
"And I want a thousand things," said Alice.
"Indeed, mistress, won't less than a thousand content you?"
"Yes, perhaps not quite a thousand, but I really do want a great many,
and I will make you a list of them. I have not pans enough for my
milk; I want salt; I want tubs; but I will make out a list, and you
will find it a very long one."
"Well, I hope you have something to sell to pay for them?"
"Yes; I have plenty of butter salted down."
"What have you, Edith?"
"Oh, my chickens are not large enough yet; as soon as they are
Humphrey must get me some ducks and geese; for I mean to keep some;
and by-and-by I will have some turkeys, but not yet. I must wait till
Humphrey builds me the new house for them he has promised me."
"I think you are right, Edith, about the ducks and geese; they will do
well on the water behind the yard, and I will dig you out a bigger
pool for them."
"Edith, my dear, your little fingers are just made to weed my onions
well, and I wish you would do it to-morrow morning, if you have time.
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