CHAPTER III. 

BUILDING THE MOLE. 

Caleb sat down upon the step of the door, eating a piece of bread, while Dwight and David returned to their work of building the mole. They got the wheelbarrow, and loaded it with stones. 

Caleb sat a few minutes more at the door, and then he went into the house, and got his little rocking chair, and brought it out under the elm, and sat down there, looking towards the boys, who were at work near the 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. 
Why did Caleb go inside?
got his little rocking chair