“What is up there?”
“That is the loft,” replied Phonny. “There is nothing up there.”
“How do you get up to see?” asked Stuyvesant.
“I can’t get up, except when Beechnut is here to boost me,” said Phonny.
“I mean to make a ladder,” said Stuyvesant.
“Hoh!” said Phonny, “you can’t make a ladder.”
“I will try, at any rate,” said Stuyvesant. Then after a short pause and a little more looking around, he added,
“Well, I am ready now to go and help you find your box. I see what I have got to do here.”
“What is it?” asked Phonny.