His cat was not so careful, and she was almost hit by one of the spike poles when the man threw it down, and she scampered home as fast as she could go.
But David didn't pay any attention to her, and the men were too busy to notice.
When the dirt was pounded hard around the pole, the men took up their things, and walked along to the place where they had unloaded the other pole; and David walked along, too, dragging his cart.
He would have liked to take some of the things in his cart, but they were all too big, for he asked one of the men.
And the man looked at his cart, and he looked at David, and he laughed and shook his head.
"But you be very careful not to get too near," he said. "If the pole should get away from us, there's no knowing what it would do."
"Yes," said David. "I was careful."
"So you were," the man said. "You do the same way while we set this pole."
So the men set the other pole, and David stood a long way off.
He stood so far off that he couldn't see very well, and when the men had the pole straight up in the air, he wandered over to the wagon and tried to see if anything else was in it.