Me and Dolly have bought this broom, and I'm looking out for a place to make a good crossing in." "Why not make one here ?" asked the lady.
It seemed a good place to try one in; there were four roads meeting, and a cab-stand close by.

Plenty of people were passing to and fro, and the middle of the road was very muddy.

Tony begged a wisp of straw from a cabman, to make a seat for Dolly in the sunshine under a blank bit of wall, while he set to work with a will, feeling rather pleased than not that the broom would not sweep of itself.

A crossing was speedily made, and for two or three hours Tony kept it well swept.

By that time it was twelve o'clock, and Dolly's dinner would be ready for her before they could reach home, if old Oliver had not forgotten it.