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Dick placed his hands beneath the constable's arms and locked his fingers across his breast, while Tom turned his back as he got between the man's legs, stooped in turn, and proceeded to lift them as if they were the handles of a wheel-barrow. "Ready?" "Yes." "Then both together." The two lads lifted the constable, staggered along a few yards, and set him down again. "Oh, I say!" groaned Tom.
A fine-looking vieillard, with clean-cut waxen features and white flowing moustaches, who wore his brown velvet jacket and sombrero with an air, walked by erect and slow, taking what he could of his belongings on a wheel-barrow. Even the conjunction of the wheel-barrow could not prevent him looking dignified and resolute.
The girls were hovering excited round the tree. He dropped the barrow and stooped to the box. The girls watched him hold back his face the boughs pricked him. "Is it very heavy?" asked Millicent. "Ay!" he replied, with a little grunt. Then the procession set off the trundling wheel-barrow, the swinging hissing tree, the two excited little girls. They arrived at the door.
"First and foremost," said he, "the tools!" and immediately he ran off to look for a little wheel-barrow which his Grandpapa had made for him; with the spade, the trowel, and the iron rake, which were at his disposal. When the tools were collected, Francis, having taken off his jacket, traced out the portion to be paved.
"And we can tell the girl to come 'over, instead of 'up, when she's to fetch us home from a tea-drinking That will be one of the 'handy' things." "Girl! we shall have a man, if we have a garden." This was between the two. "Mayhap," said Barbara. "And perlikely a wheel-barrow."
Sam thought he might as well talk to this groom as to any one else, especially as he was very tired with walking, and there was a good large stone just opposite the wheel-barrow; so he strolled down the lane, and, seating himself on the stone, opened a conversation with the ease and freedom for which he was remarkable. 'Mornin', old friend, said Sam.
There was a timid knock at the door. There were two persons waiting, a short, thick-set man and a pale woman with dark, bright eyes who was nearly a head taller than her companion. "Come in, Ellen; I'm glad to see you," said the agent. "Have you got your wheel-barrow, Mike?"
I answered in a few days, stating that I had spent the greater portion of the winter hauling coke a distance of about a mile in a wheel-barrow for our own use and that it took about a bushel a minute to keep us comfortable. I enclosed my photograph, saying that I had stopped on my way home from canvassing one afternoon and had it taken just as I appeared on the street.
Yet some things were necessary for himself; and to relieve his body from the pressure of a load, he provided himself with a wheel-barrow, on which to place his traps.
A wheel-barrow per day of butter-scotch would soon leave her more than she could manage or desire, and slippers with satin tops and high heels, would only prove themselves useless and injurious.
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