And he took hold of the handle of his cart, and walked home as fast as he could, dragging his cart, and his shovel and his hoe rattled in the bottom of it.
When he got home, there was his cat waiting for him.
David dropped the handle of his cart, and ran around to the back of the house and got an old grocery box that he used to play with.
He kept all his things at the back of the house: old broken grocery boxes and old tin cans and rows of bottles, some of them filled with water and some filled with thin mud and some empty, and nails and pieces of iron and sticks; but not his toys.
And David dragged the old grocery box around to the front, and put it opposite the end of a step.
Not all of the boards which had been nailed on for a cover were taken off, so that the inside of the box was hard to get at, and it was rather dark.
Then he picked up two short sticks and put them on the step.
David hurried to do all these things, and when he had them done, he hurried into the house and into the dining-room, and he climbed up in a chair and took a short candle out of one of the candlesticks which they used on the table.
Then he pushed the chair over near where the matches were, and he climbed up again and got three matches. And then he hurried out again.
He scratched one of the matches on the piazza floor and managed to get the candle lighted with that first match.