"I dunno. He's making a boat—or was.—Benjamin!" he called; "I say, Benjamin!"
The door of the living room opened, and little Ben appeared.
"Here's a man who has come to see you. What have you been doing now?"
"Boy," said the man—he spoke the word so loudly that the little boy felt that it raised him almost to the dignity of a man.
"What, sir?" gasped Ben, very intelligent as to what would follow.
"Did you put those stones into the water?"
"Yes, sir."
"What did you do that for?"
"To make a wharf, sir."
"'To make a wharf, sir!' Didn't you have the sense to know that those stones were building stones and belonged to the workmen?"