"She may also eat my
wheelbarrow," added a pleasant looking Muffin.
"There is no need to beware of baby-cabs and
wheelbarrows; but automobiles are dangerous things.
"'Buy back your
wheelbarrow? You don't mean to say you have sold it?
PETER got down very quietly off the
wheelbarrow, and started running as fast as he could go, along a straight walk behind some black-currant bushes.
I was still deficient, for I wanted a basket or a
wheelbarrow. A basket I could not make by any means, having no such things as twigs that would bend to make wicker-ware - at least, none yet found out; and as to a
wheelbarrow, I fancied I could make all but the wheel; but that I had no notion of; neither did I know how to go about it; besides, I had no possible way to make the iron gudgeons for the spindle or axis of the wheel to run in; so I gave it over, and so, for carrying away the earth which I dug out of the cave, I made me a thing like a hod which the labourers carry mortar in when they serve the bricklayers.
It was but little after sunrise, when Uncle Venner made his appearance, as aforesaid, impelling a
wheelbarrow along the street.
Then imagine the pain of shovelling coal and trundling a loaded
wheelbarrow with two sprained wrists.
When I trotted, I rattled like a crate of dishes, and that annoyed me; and moreover I couldn't seem to stand that shield slatting and banging, now about my breast, now around my back; and if I dropped into a walk my joints creaked and screeched in that wearisome way that a
wheelbarrow does, and as we didn't create any breeze at that gait, I was like to get fried in that stove; and besides, the quieter you went the heavier the iron set- tled down on you and the more and more tons you seemed to weigh every minute.
The nearest that I came to actual possession was when I bought the Hollowell place, and had begun to sort my seeds, and collected materials with which to make a
wheelbarrow to carry it on or off with; but before the owner gave me a deed of it, his wife -- every man has such a wife -- changed her mind and wished to keep it, and he offered me ten dollars to release him.
In the heavy shadows of a big tree before Doctor Welling's house, he stopped and stood watching half-witted Turk Smollet, who was pushing a
wheelbarrow in the road.
The farmer also gave him a
wheelbarrow to carry away his money and the chest.
Over in the vacant lots was Jasper, young, coal black, and of magnificent build, sitting on a
wheelbarrow in the pelting sun--at work, supposably, whereas he was in fact only preparing for it by taking an hour's rest before beginning.
Fogg and Aouda got into the palanquin, their luggage being brought after on a
wheelbarrow, and half an hour later stepped upon the quay whence they were to embark.
Luckily a butcher soon came by, driving a pig in a
wheelbarrow. 'What is the matter with you, my man?' said the butcher, as he helped him up.
There is not a
wheelbarrow in the land--they carry everything on their heads, or on donkeys, or in a wicker-bodied cart, whose wheels are solid blocks of wood and whose axles turn with the wheel.
