mortar-shovel

Updated: May 7, 2025

"Hello!" called the rabbit gentleman. "Are you Twisty-Tail?" "That's my name," answered the little pig, "and, as you see, I am building my house of bricks, just as it tells about in the Mother Goose book." And, surely enough, Twisty-Tail was building a little house of red bricks, and it was the tap-tap-tapping of his trowel, or mortar-shovel, that made the clinkity-clankity noise.

Howard Roger Garis - Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard : Adventures of the Rabbit Gentleman with the Mother Goose Characters