carpenter.

They asked him to bring a ladder, axes and pickaxe. As he felt it
might be a case of fire, he brought also his fire-buckets.

When the matter was explained to him, he went into the
dining-room, looked into the dumb-waiter, untwisted a cord, and
arranged the weight, and pulled up the dinner.

There was a family shout.

"The trouble was in the weight," said the carpenter.

"That is why it is called a dumb-waiter," Solomon John explained
to the little boys.

The dinner was put upon the table.

Mrs. Peterkin frugally suggested that they might now keep it for
the next day, as to-day was almost gone, and they had had tea.

But nobody listened. All sat down to the roast turkey; and Amanda
warmed over the vegetables.

"Patient waiters are no losers," said Agamemnon.

THE PETERKINS' SUMMER JOURNEY. IN fact, it was their
last summer's journey­for it had been planned then; but there had
been so many difficulties, it had been delayed.