When the cart was filled, the man tossed his shovel on top of the dirt and started walking along.
"Come along, Jack," he said.
The horse had had his ears pricked forward, and when the man said that, he started and followed the man to the end of the yellow dirt.
There he stopped, and the man took his shovel off the cart and threw it on the ground. And he took the backboard out of the cart, and he put his knee on the cart, and the top tipped back and slid all that dirt out in a heap on the ground.
Then the horse walked along two steps, and the man took his shovel and scraped out what was left in the cart, and he tipped the top of the cart back again and he put the backboard in.
And he got up into the cart, and the horse turned around and walked back to the pile to get another load.
David wanted to ask somebody some questions about the dirt, but he didn't know any of the men, and they all seemed to be very busy.
So he just watched; and he saw another man come, and he had a shovel, and he spread around the dirt in the heap that the cart had just dumped until it was pretty even and smooth.
And the horse came, bringing another load, and that was dumped, and the man spread that around with his shovel.
David went nearer, and the man saw him.