e water. At last, David spied him sitting there, and said,

"There is Caleb, sitting under the great tree."

Dwight looked around, and then, throwing down the stone that he had in
his hands, he said,

"I mean to go and get him to come here."

So he ran towards him, and said,

"Come, Caleb, come down here, and help us make our mole."

"No," said Caleb, shaking his head, and, turning away a little; "I don't
want to go."

"O, do come, Caleb," said Dwight; "I won't trouble you any more."

"No," said Caleb: "I am tired, and I had rather stay here in my little
chair."

"But I will carry your chair down to the brook; and there is a beautiful
place there to sit and see us tumble in the stones."

So Caleb got up, and Dwight took his chair, and they walked together
down to the shore of the brook. Dwight found a little spot so smooth and
level, that the rocking-chair would stand very even upon it, though it
would not rock very well, for the ground was not hard, like a floor.
Caleb rested his elbow upon the arm of his chair, and his pale cheek in
his little slender hand, and watched the stones, as, one after another,
they fell into the brook.

The brook at this place, was very wide and shallow, and the current was
not very rapid, so that they got along pretty fast; and thus the mole
advanced steadily out into the stream.

"Well, Caleb," said Dwight, as he stopped, after they had tossed out all
the stones from the wheelbarrow, "and how do you like our mole?"

"O, not very well," said Caleb.

"Why not?" said Dwight, surprised.

"It is so stony."

"Stony?" said Dwight.

"Yes," said Caleb, "I don't think _I_ could walk on it very well."

"O," said Dwight, "we are going to make the top very smooth, when we get
it done."

"How?" said Caleb.

"Why, we are going to haul gravel on it, and smooth it all down."

"Why can't we do it now?" said David, "as we go along: and then we can
wheel our wheelbarrow out upon it, and tip our stones in at the end."

"Agreed," said Dwight; and they accordingly leveled the stones off on
the top, and put small stones in at all the interstices, that is, the
little spaces between the large stones, so as to prevent the gravel from
running down through. Then they went and got a load of gravel out of a
bank pretty near, and spread it down over the top, and it made a good,
smooth road; only, it was not trodden down hard at first, and so it was
not very easy wheeling over it.

They found