He had the lumber hauled up there and unloaded, while Rosemary and Applehead were cooking breakfast for ten hungry people.

He laid out his foundation and explained to the boys just how it should be built, and even sacrificed his appetite to his impatience by going a quarter of a mile to where he remembered seeing some old barbed wire strung along a fence to keep it off the ground so that stock could not tangle in it.

He got the wire and brought it back with him to guy out the uprights for the diffusers.

So on the whole he began the day as well as even he could desire.
Then little hindrances began to creep in to delay him.

For one thing, the Happy Family had only a comedy acquaintance with grease paint, and their make-up reminded Luck unpleasantly of Bently Brown's stories.