ays ready for anything.
"We can make a cart and have Zip pull us in it. If grandma had a pony I
guess she'd have a pony-cart, but she hasn't, so we can make a dog-cart."
"How can we do it?" asked Laddie.
"Well, you just take an old box--we saw some of the kind I want down at
the grocery store--and you put wheels on it."
"Where are you going to get the wheels?" asked Laddie.
Russ had to stop and think about that part. Then he happened to remember
that he had seen two wheels from an old baby carriage out in the barn.
Grandma Bell had once had a woman working for her who had a little baby,
and this woman had kept the carriage at the Bell farmhouse. But after a
while it broke, or wore out, and when the woman and her baby went away
there were only two wheels of the carriage left.
"We can take them," said Russ, "and maybe we can find two more somewhere.
We'll ask daddy or grandma."
"Say, it'll be lots of fun if we can make a dog-cart!" cried Laddie.
"Could we really ride in it, do you s'pose?"
"Why, yes!" answered Russ. "Zip is strong enough to pull us both. Look at
him pull that log. Feel how hard he pulls on the rope!"
The boys took hold of the rope and tried to hold back on it. But Zip was
so strong that he dragged them along a little way, as well as the log. And
Zip growled and snarled, pretending he was very angry.
"Look out!" cried Mother Bunker. "He might bite you!"
"Zip is only playing," said Grandma Bell. "He never bites. But what are
you doing?" she asked Russ and Laddie.
"We're trying how hard Zip can pull, to see if he can pull us when we make
a dog-cart," explained Russ.
"Please, Grandma, may we?" asked Laddie. "And may we have the two old baby
carriage wheels out in the barn?"
"Yes, certainly," his grandmother said. "But I don't know where there are
any more wheels. You'll have to get along with two."
"Well, we could do that," Russ said. "But four would be better. Oh,
Laddie! We'll have a lot of fun making the dog-cart!"
"That's what we will
Notka biograficzna
Reverend Nehemiah Adams (born February 19, 1806; died October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. He was ordained as co-pastor of First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that same year. In 1832, he married Martha Hooper.
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Joanna Baillie (September 11, 1762February 23, 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, her cottage at Hampstead was the centre of a brilliant literary society. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.