He waded into the little pond at the garden gate, and then turned round to look at Lucy and laugh. He began, too, to caper about in the water, but Lucy told him to take care, or he would fall down, and they could not wash his clothes, as they could his feet, with their dipper of water.
He waded into the little pond at the garden gate
So he went carefully forward till he came to the peas, and gathered as many as he wanted, and then returned.
As he was coming back, he saw Jonas in the barn. Jonas called out to him to ask what he had got.
“I have been to get some pea-pods,” said he, “to make boats with.”
“Where are you going to sail them?” said Jonas.
“O, in this little pond, when it is done raining.”
“But you had better have a little pond now, in the shed.”
“How can we?” said Rollo.