"We haven't any, but oh, Toyman, let us in, _plee-a-sse_."

"All right, but don't talk more than forty words to the minute, or I
can't plane this straight," he said, working away at the boards.

They couldn't yet guess what _IT_ was. And it took a good many
hours from his work and chores for the Toyman to finish IT, whatever
IT was. But after about a week they saw standing against the wall four
boards about two feet long, curved like this:

[Illustration]

And four more cross-pieces of a very ordinary shape:

[Illustration]

And one cross-piece with handles:

[Illustration]

Then one very long one like this:

[Illustration]

The thing to do was to guess what they would make when put together.

Just then the Toyman arrived with three barrel hoops. And he worked
away with his tools until the hoops were almost straight. Then he made
little holes in them and nailed them with little nails, very neatly,
on the four long curved pieces of wood. Then he fastened these curved