"Well, I haven't one for him; but we will go and have a look, while Jane sweeps a little; perhaps we may find something which will serve for one."
They went back into the box-room. "Here is a little round table with one leg off," announced Alice, from the depths of a corner.
"Is the leg there?"
"I can't see it."
"Then it's of no use."
"My eyes are sharp," exclaimed Minnie, jumping over the boxes and bundles and sliding down somewhere near Alice.
"How you startled me!" said Alice; "but however sharp your eyes are, Miss Minnie, you won't find it here."
But she did for all that. She went to work carefully, poking about with her little hands without disturbing anything, and when the others had given it up as hopeless, a joyful cry from her announced its discovery.
They were just fitting it into its place and considering whether Hugh would be able to mend it, when the two boys came rushing up the stairs from school.
"I'm moved up!" exclaimed Hugh, long before he got in sight of his sisters. "Whatever are you girls doing up here? Isn't that jolly for me?"