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The Carpenter's Help
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The Painter's Help
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Joe-Boy
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The Bedroom
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The Parlor
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The Dining Room
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The Kitchen
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Joe-Boy's Room
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The Completed House
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Joe-Boy's Party
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Farmer Green's Cotton Seed
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Farmer Green Picks His Cotton
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The Cotton at the Ginhouse
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The Cotton at the Warehouse
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The Cotton at the Factory
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Joe-Boy's Birthday Dresses
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Joe-Boy's Linen Picture Book
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Father Gipsy's Surprise
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Joe-Boy's Silk Present
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The Woolen Balls' Story
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The Wooden Ball's Story
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Why the Trees Slept
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The Marble Palace
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Joe-Boy at Kindergarten
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Joe-Boy's Cow
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Lady Cow's Butter
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The Little Sick Girl
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Farmer Green's Grain
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The Miller
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The Kindergarten Lunch
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Joe-Boy's Letter
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How the Policeman Helped Joe-Boy
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How Lady Cow Was Saved
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Joe-Boy and the Doctor
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Joe-Boy in Church
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Joe-Boy's Pets
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Prince Charming
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Captain
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Snowball
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Silverlocks
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Pig-a-Wee
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The Rabbits That Wore the Blue Ribbon
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Mrs. Spider-Brown
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Mrs. Spider-Brown's Children
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Dimple and Dot
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Hippity-Hop
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The Wonderful Eggs
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Mrs. Speckle
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Buffy
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Buffy's Stepmother
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White-Wings
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The Little Pigeons Four
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The Carrier Pigeon
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The Return of the Bluebirds
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The Birds' Store
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Jenny-Wren
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The Gray-Swallows' Fright
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The Baby Mockingbirds
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How the Jaybirds Planted Trees
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The Broken Twig
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The Little Robins Three
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The Redbird's Story
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Mrs. Bobwhite's Family
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The Whippoorwill Twins
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Little Kitty Catbird
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The Thrushes' Picnic
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The Red-Headed Woodpecker
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Billy Sanders' Canary
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Dandy and the Sparrows
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Billy's Christmas Tree to the Birds
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The Brown Bulb-Babies
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Baby Lily
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The Little Worm That Helped
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The Merry, Merry Blossoms
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The Little Worm's Visit
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The Princess
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Bluette's Eggs
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Bluette's Babies
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Bluette's Smallest Baby
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The Surprise of the Sassafras Bush
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The Children's Garden
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How Prince Charming Helped
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The Vegetable Beds
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The Flower Beds
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Peggy Rose's Garden
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Jack's Beanstalk
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The Pea-Pods
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The Garden Party
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The Red, Red Nasturtium
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The Lady Petunia's Story
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Baby Dandelion
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Rosy Clover-Blossom-Boy
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Pretty Daisy-Fair
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Why the Sunflowers Hang Their Heads
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The Awakening of the Princess
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The Queen of the Bees
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The Queen's Eggs
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Busy-Wings
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Busy-Wings in Prison
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Busy-Wings' Color Lesson
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Bright-Eyes
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The Red Ants' Cows
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Bright-Eyes and the Nut
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The Ants' Bridge
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The Red Ants' Secret
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Little Jimmy Lightning-Bug
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Greenie June-Bug
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Vacation Time
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The Camping Trip, Part 1
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The Camping Trip, Part 2
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The Carpenter's Help
W
HEN the brickmasons had finished their work and gone
home, Father Gipsy hurried to the tent in the woods. He
knew Mother Gipsy would be waiting for him, and would
want to hear all about the work on the new house. Sure
enough, she came down the path to meet him, and the
very first thing she said was:
"How is Joe-Boy's house? Did the brickmasons build a
strong foundation?"
"Yes indeed," said Father Gipsy, "the foundation is
finished, and it is such a fine, strong one I am sure
you will like it."
"That is good news," said Mother Gipsy, "now, what is
the next thing to be done?"
"The next thing to do," said Father Gipsy, "is to find
some jolly carpenters. They will build the wood work
and finish up the house. It will take them many days of
hard work, but I shall pay them well, and by-and-by all
will be finished, and Joe-Boy and you and I will move
into the pretty house."
Very early the next morning the carpenters came to work
on the house, and each one of them brought his dinner
in a basket, because they would be so busy building all
day, there would be no time to go home for dinner. They
brought large tool boxes with them too, filled with all
kinds of carpenter's tools—hammers, saws, augers,
gimlets, measuring squares, planes, screws and nails.
Soon every carpenter was hard at work, some hammering,
some sawing, some planing, some boring and some
measuring, but all working on Joe-Boy's house.
For many days Mother Gipsy listened to the ring of the
hammers and the whir of the saws, as the planks were
sawn in two—long ones and short ones, thick ones and
thin—planed smooth and level, and then nailed in place.
Sometimes great, heavy planks would have to be lifted
to the top of the house, and then, it would take many
men to help, because one man was not strong enough to
lift it all by himself. They would tie a rope around
the large plank, and then pass this rope over a strong
iron wheel, called a pulley, and catching the other end
of the rope they would pull and pull with all their
strength, and the heavy
plank would rise higher and higher, until it reached
the top of the house, where other carpenters were
waiting to catch it and nail it into place. These
carpenters knew of other ways to move things, too,—weights
so heavy that many men could not lift
them,
even a little way, and then they would use the capstan,
which could lift heavy weights high and hold them so
tight, they could not slip, nor hurt anyone. And if the
carpenters had anything on top of the house to send
down to the ground, they would slide it down a long
slanting board, called an inclined plane, and this
helped them in their building very, very much, and
saved many steps. So, you see what busy, busy workmen
these carpenters were, and how much work they had to do
before Joe-Boy's house would be ready for him.
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