"I'm just looking to see if the men do their work right. Come over here and I'll show you."
So the little boy left his cart beside the pile of sand and walked over to where the man was.
And the man met him and took hold of his hand; and they walked together to the edge of the cellar and looked down into it, and the man stooped down and kneeled on one knee, with his arm half around the little boy so that he wouldn't fall in.
In the cellar the little boy saw a great many big stones that lay all about the middle, where they had been dumped; and there were six men working around the edge of the cellar building the wall.
In part of the cellar the wall had been begun and was about two feet high; but in another part there was nothing but the smooth dirt at the bottom, and the smooth sides of the cellar that went straight up.
And two of the men were digging a trench in the smooth bottom of the cellar where the wall would be.
When they had the shallow trench dug for a few feet, one of the men put down his shovel and went to the pile of stones.
And he found some stones that were the size he wanted, each of them just about as big as he could carry in one hand. And he took two of these and went to the trench and put them in.
Then he went to the pile and got two more, and he put them in the trench, too. And so he did until the bottom of the trench was all covered.
Then he got smaller stones and threw them in on top of the bigger ones; and, on top of those, still smaller stones that were flattish.