"I thought when the tide came, Captain Drummond, I could let it flow in here, and see how it would look."
"It's a poor rule that don't work both ways," said the Captain. "I always heard that 'time and tide wait for no man;' and we won't wait for the tide. Here Gary make yourself useful fetch some water here; enough to fill two seas and a portion of the Atlantic Ocean."
"What shall I bring it in, if you please?"
"Anything! your hands, or your hat, man. Do impossibilities for once. It is easy to see you are not a soldier."
"The fates preserve me from being a soldier under you!" said Gary "if that's your idea of military duty! What are you going to do while I play Neptune in a bucket."
"I am going to build cities and raise up mountains. Daisy, suppose we lay in a supply of these little white stones, and some black ones."
While this was done, and Daisy looked delighted, Mr. McFarlane seized upon a tin dipper which June had brought, and filled it at the river. Captain Drummond carefully poured out the water into the Mediterranean, and opened a channel through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, which were very full of sand, into the Black Sea. Then he sent Gary off again for more; and began placing the pebbles.
"What is that for, Captain Drummond?" asked Daisy.
"These are the Alps white, as they should be, for the snow always lies on them."
"Is it so cold there?"