Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 251
ld like tomake one. The slate hung by the door. Hal took it downand sat on a broken chair to write. He thought,as he did so, that if he was a carpenter he wouldmend all the broken chairs in his shop. I dont know what to write, he said. Say you want a dog-house, the carpenterpromptly replied. So Hal… … I AM THE CARPENTER, SHE REPLIED. Two feet by twenty, and she held up hertable, which now had three legs, and, with herhead on one side, she looked at it critically. Do you mean twenty feet high and two feetbroad ? I suppose so. Nonsense, said Hal, after thinking a moment. You dont know how high…
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