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 to be found in this important auxiliary, he was satisfied, and the work was begun in earnest.

A fair division of labor is one of the useful discoveries of modern times; but if our friends had never heard of it as a principle, they certainly availed themselves of it as a fact. First, Alice, as the owner, founder, and projector, pondered and considered and decided what she wished to have done. She represented the theoretic element. Next, the more experienced matron, Mrs. Campbell, took her grandchild's crude imaginings into wise consideration, and decided how it was to be done. She was clearly the practical member. Next came Winny, who held the highest executive power; she took her directions from her mistress, measured and marked and adjusted the boards in their places, and showed her father how to do it. And last of all came in old Drosky, the mechanical power, who did the hammering and sawing—or, as Winny pithily phrased it, "she druv old dad, an' dad druv the nails."

At all events, they worked well together, and made a very harmonious quartette, and