"We'll do that this afternoon.

It's time to go to dinner now." The boys then gathered all the tools, &c., and laid them together, as Jonas had taught them to do, when they finished work, and then started for home.
"Halloo, Franco," said Rollo, "are you here still ?" They had been so busy at work, they had taken no notice of him.

But Franco had watched their operations, and now went running on in the path before the boys, wagging his tail, as if he had as much pleasure as they, in contemplating the result of their morning's labor.
When Jonas came home to dinner, at noon, the boys were impatient to tell him what they had done.
But Jonas was too much engaged in some work about the new barn to listen to their story then.

He told them, however, that he would go down about sunset, and look at their work, and hear the account, in the evening, of the experiment in doing work like workmen.
After dinner, Oliver was excused from many of his regular duties, on account of the visit of Rollo and Nathan; and the three boys hastened to return to their fort.

They were so intent on finishing it, that they lost all interest in playing with Franco, or each other.
"What shall we call our fort ?" said Oliver, as they walked along.
"We don't want any name, do we ?" said Rollo.
"O, yes," said Oliver, "let us have a name.