"I live in that house. Do you know whether there are any little boys coming to live in this house?"
"I think likely," said the moving-man, "but I don't know for certain."
"Well, are you going to take all these things into the house?" David asked again, pointing at the things.
There were a hat-rack, and two waste-baskets filled with little things done up in newspaper, and a little table, and a paste-board box filled with hats, and two mirrors about as tall as David, and a maid's wash-stand, and a bundle of pictures tied up in newspapers, and a wooden box full of rubbers, and some crockery things, and a barrel of kitchen things, and a great enormous paste-board box tied up with tape, and another great pasteboard box with the side broken in, and three kitchen chairs, and a chamber chair, and a bundle of magazines, and some other things; and they were all spread out on the walk.
These things were all the things that had been left over and put in last in packing the vans, or little things which filled up chinks.
"We are going to take them in as soon as somebody comes to tell us where to put them," the moving-man answered. "And we want to take in some of the big things first, such as beds and dining-room table and heavy things like those. They are all packed in the bottom of the vans."
David nodded his head.
Just then one of the men took out of a van a little upholstered armchair.
"Hello!" said the moving-man. "That looks as if there was a youngster of some kind coming, either a boy or a girl."
Then another man came with a box of toys, and set it down beside the armchair.