2017.06.27

Today is Tuesday.

The little boy ran off and told the postman with the morning mail, the telegraph boy on his bicycle, the milkman with his cart and horse, the doctor on his way home, and the farmer and his family coming into town for the day, and they all stopped and stayed to watch. That made Mike Mulligan and Mary Anne dig a little faster and a little better.They finished the first corner neat and square... but the sun was getting higher. Then came the firemen of the Fire Department, the children from the school. They finished the second corner. And then came the people from the next towns, who were called by the telephone girls. They finished the third corner... neat and square. Never had Mike Mulligan and Mary Anne had so many people to watch them; never had they dug so fast and so well; and never had the sun seemed to go down so fast. They had finally finished the last corner before the sun went down. But they couldn't get out of the cellar. No one had a good idea to get them out. The little boy got an idea that they could stay in the cellar, Mary becoming the furnace of the town hall and Mike becoming the janitor. Everybody was happy, so did Mike Mulligan and Mary Anne.