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"I think likely," said the moving-man, "but I don't know for certain." "Well, are you going to take all these things into the house?" David asked again, pointing at the things.
These things were all the things that had been left over and put in last in packing the vans, or little things which filled up chinks. "We are going to take them in as soon as somebody comes to tell us where to put them," the moving-man answered. "And we want to take in some of the big things first, such as beds and dining-room table and heavy things like those.
Then the moving-man turned the handle of the faucet so that a little thin stream of water ran out, and the little dog came up and lapped out of the little thin stream, wagging his stump of a tail very fast. He wagged and he lapped until he had had enough. And the moving-man turned the handle of the faucet the other way, and the water stopped running.
The mirrors on sideboard and dresser had never been put on twice the same, and the middle leg of the dining-room table wobbled from having been removed so often. But we oiled out the mark and memory of the moving-man, bought new matting, and went into the month of June fresh, clean, and hopeful, with no regret for past errors. And now at last we found really some degree of comfort.
"That looks so, too, doesn't it now?" said the moving-man. He looked up. "And here he is, I guess." David turned around, and he saw a very pleasant-looking man coming along, and, holding by his hand, there was a little boy who looked as if he might be almost five years old.
They are all packed in the bottom of the vans." David nodded his head. Just then one of the men took out of a van a little upholstered armchair. "Hello!" said the moving-man. "That looks as if there was a youngster of some kind coming, either a boy or a girl." Then another man came with a box of toys, and set it down beside the armchair. David saw it and smiled.
I will not review these things fully, nor will I recall, except in the briefest manner, the usual perfidiousness of the moving-man, who, as heretofore, came two hours late, and then arranged upon the pavement all the unbeauteous articles of our household, leaving them bare and wretched in the broad light of day while he thrust into the van the pieces of which we were justly proud.
And he came to the faucet where they screw on the hose, and he saw that there was a drop of water hanging on the bottom of the faucet. So he licked that up and waited until another drop came, and he licked that up. Then one of the moving-men saw him. "Poor little Dick!" said the moving-man. And he went to the faucet and the little dog wagged his stump of a tail and backed away a step and waited.
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