“I suppose you want the bird’s bath for your garden, Miss Dorothy;—why don’t you make a little pool for the garden?”
“Oh, could we?”
“If you could get a tub and lay down a flooring of concrete and then put in another tub enough smaller so that there would be a space between the walls, then you could fill the space with concrete. When it set, you could take out the inner tub after two or three days and turn the concrete out of the outer tub and there you’d have a concrete tub that you could move about.”
“That sounds great,” beamed Dorothy, “but wouldn’t it be awfully heavy?”
“Here’s a better way, then. If you can make up your mind exactly where you want to have it in your garden you can have a hole dug, lay down your floor of concrete and put your small tub on it.”
“I see—then you fill the space between the tub and the earth with concrete.”
“Precisely; thump it down hard and let it stand untouched for a while. Then take away your tub, and there you are again.”
“You can’t make the concrete floor and leave it, can you?”
“No, indeed. You must have everything ready to do the whole thing at once. Put in your tub which is to be your mold, while the floor is still plastic—”
“Eh?” inquired Ethel Brown.