“See ye then, Billy”—blowing the bellows gently—“is it work to make yon sparks go, blue and green and red, as fast as ever ye like to drive ’em?”
“Te-he, ’tis just a bit o’ sport—I hadn’t thought of it in that light.” And soon he was blowing steadily.
Later, when David the smith was going to America and wished to leave his forge with the half-witted Billy, he proposed the smith’s work as play.
“Te-he,” laughed Billy, “am I to play wi’ all your fine tools, David?”
“Ay, just that. I’ve taught ye the way o’ them and Dan Foster’s lad from Brow Farm shall come and blow the bellows for you.”
“Will that be work for Dan Foster’s lad, or play?”
“Hard work, Billy—grievous hard work, while you are just playing at making horseshoes, fence railings, and what not.”
“And I’m to play at making horseshoes,” went on Fool Billy, “while Dan Foster’s lad’s sweating hard at bellows-blowing.”
CHAPTER III
Community effort is needed to make better conditions for all, in streets and public places, for water and milk supply, hospitals, markets, housing problems, etc. Restraint for sake of neighbors.