“And now to finish our well,” said William, as soon as dinner was over.
“How hard you do work, William!” said his mother.
“So I ought, mother. I must learn to do everything now.”
“And that you will very soon,” said Ready.
They rolled the cask to the spring, and, to their astonishment, found the great hole which they had dug not two hours before quite full of water.
“Oh dear,” said William, “we shall have to throw all the water out to get the cask down.”
“Think a little, William,” said Mr Seagrave, “for the spring runs so fast that it will not be an easy task. Cannot we do something else?”
“Why, father, the cask will float, you know,” replied William.
“To be sure it will as it is; but is there no way of making it sink?”
“Oh yes. I know—we must bore some holes in the bottom, and then it will fill and sink down of itself.”