This picture shows a clay pit, a kiln, brickmakers, brick roadway, culvert, chimney, bridge, men laying bricks.
“Could you and I have mended the broken chimney, father?” asked Wallace.
“Not very well, my boy,” replied Mr. Duwell. “‘Every man to his trade,’ you know. By the way, I hope Mr. Bricklayer will be here before you children start to school in the morning. Run to bed now so that you can be up early to see him begin his work.”
II. The Bricklayer
The next day dawned bright and sunny, with only a merry little breeze to remind one of yesterday’s storm.
The bricklayer did not come before the children started to school in the morning, but just after lunch. They had only time to watch him and his helper climb to the roof.
“I am going to get home from school early,” said Wallace; “maybe they will not be through by that time.”
“I am, too,” Ruth chimed in. “I wonder what bricks are,” she added.