“All of you commanding, and none obeying. There is nothing but confusion and noise. I don't see how you can gather apples so. How many have you got in?”
So saying, he went and looked into the barrels.
“None,” said he; “I thought so.”
He stood still a minute, as if thinking what to do; and then he told them to leave the wagon there, and go with him, and he would show them the way to work.
The boys accordingly walked along after him, through the garden-house, into [pg 146]the yard. They then went across the road, and down behind a barn, to a place where some men were building a stone bridge. They stopped upon a bank at some distance, and looked down upon them.
“There,” said he, “see how men work!”
It happened, at that time, that all the men were engaged in moving a great stone with iron bars. There was scarcely any thing said by any of them. Every thing went on silently, but the stone moved regularly into its place.
“Now, boys, do you understand,” said the farmer, “how they get along so quietly?”
“Why, it is because they are men, and not boys,” said Rollo.
“No,” said the farmer, “that is not the reason. It is because they have a head.”