waiting for him.
"Well, well, well, boys!" Mr.Driggs called cheerily.

"So you didn't back out." "Did you think we would, sir ?" Dick inquired.
"No; I knew you boys wouldn't back out.

And I don't believe you threw away any bark on the way home, just to lighten your loads." Hiram went about the yard starting the day's work for his men, then came back to the boys.
"Now, just bring the bark over to the platform and we'll look it over and sort it," suggested the boat builder.
Dick & Co.

carried their loads over to the platform, where they cut the lashings.
"We'll make three heaps of the stuff," Driggs proposed.

"One heap will be the worthless stuff that has to be thrown away.
Another heap will be for the pieces that are good but small; they'll do for patches.