“That’s all you know about it! There are ever so many things we can do.”
“What, for instance?”
“Well, we’ll have to get the meals for the men, and you haven’t any idea what a lot of men can eat when they’re working hard! They have appetites just like wolves.”
“Well, I’ll certainly do my best to see that they get enough. They’ll have earned it. What else?”
“They’ll want people to hand them their tools, and run little errands for them. And if the weather is very hot, they’ll be terribly thirsty, too, and we’ll be able to keep busy seeing that they have plenty of cooling drinks. Oh, we’ll be busy, all right! Come on, let’s go to bed.”
CHAPTER VII
THE HOUSE RAISING
The sun was scarcely up in the morning when Eleanor turned out and aroused the girls.