“I remember what Benjamin Franklin wrote,” he went on, “about the streets of Philadelphia in his day. He said the mud after a storm was so deep that it came above the people’s shoe-tops. It was Benjamin Franklin himself who first talked of paving the streets.”
“I’m glad they aren’t as bad as they were in Benjamin Franklin’s time,” said Mildred.
QUESTIONS
Have you ever watched a bricklayer working?
What was he doing?
Could you have done it?
Where do you suppose he got his bricks?
Have you ever seen bricks being made?
Are bricklayers, cement workers, and stone masons more needed in the city or in the country? Why?