"Are you going to plant some little trees?" David asked.
"We're going to sow grass seed here," the man answered, "when this is all covered with loam."
Then another load of loam came, and he was busy with his shovel, and David went back to watch the other men plant trees.
They were planting more little Christmas trees near that first one, five trees in a kind of a clump, and David watched them dig the holes and put the trees in, and spread the roots about, and put dirt on them, and stamp the dirt down hard, and put the water in.
And when the Christmas trees were all planted, they put another kind at the back corner of the house.
Then they went to the front corner of the house, and one of them said that there was the place for the lilac bushes.
And he got the lilac bushes and cut off a part of the roots while the other men were digging the holes, and they planted the lilac bushes in the holes, but they didn't do it so carefully as they had with the other kinds of trees.
And when they had the holes filled up and the water turned off, and the planting of lilac bushes all finished, they stopped and leaned on their shovels and looked around, to see what else they had to do.
The loam was all over the yellow dirt, and the last load was just being spread around.
So some of the men went to get the grass seed. That grass seed was in green bags.