10. They could not make out how the handle was put on, so their aunt went to the knife-box and got out an old knife that had lost its handle. They saw that the blade had a long thin piece of iron at the end of it.
11. 'A long hole is made inside the handle, and this iron thing is put into it, and made fast.'
So their uncle said, and then looked at the clock and saw that it was time for him to go.
Setting out for the Farm.
THE HEN.
| bas´-ket | watch | ban´-tams | greed´-y |
| fetch | thought | know | gray |
| friends | charge | proud | swal´-lowed |
| fowls | pair | peck´-ing | laughed |
1. The day after Dora and Harry came home, their mother gave them a basket and sent them up to the farm to fetch eggs.