CHERRY-TIME.
THE DAVY BOYS’ FISHING-POND.
BOYS,” said Mr. Davy, “how would you like to have a fishing-pond?”
The five boys looked at him eagerly, to see if he were in earnest.
“O, splendid, papa!” say they in chorus; “but how can we have a fishing-pond?”
“You know that hollow down in the pasture,” continued Mr. Davy, “and what a blemish it is upon the farm. I have wondered if we could not make it useful in some way, and at the same time improve the looks of things. I think we might build an embankment upon the open side, make the slope steeper all round, bring the water into it from the creek, and so have a fishing-pond. We should have to make a race-way from the creek to the pond, and cut a channel through the meadow, in which the water could flow back to the creek again below the fall. I think it could be done,” said Mr. Davy, after a pause, “only there would be a great deal of work necessary, and we could hardly afford to hire it done.”
“O, father, we can do the digging,” shouted five voices in chorus; “we can do it with our spades and wheelbarrows. School doesn’t begin for a month yet, and we can get it all done in that time.”