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But don't you want a nice straight road in the place of all these
rotten rutty little lanes?"
"I won't say it wouldn't be advantageous, but--"
"It isn't to be done," said the eldest Cossar boy, picking up his tools.
"Not in this way," said the lawyer, "certainly."
"How is it to be done?"
The leading lawyer's answer had been complicated and vague.
Cossar had come down to see the mischief his children had done, and
reproved them severely and laughed enormously and seemed to be extremely
happy over the affair. "You boys must wait a bit," he shouted up to
them, "before you can do things like that."
"
The lawyer told us we must begin by preparing a scheme, and getting
special powers and all sorts of rot. Said it would take us years."
"
We'll have a scheme before long, little boy," cried Cossar, hands to
his mouth as he shouted, "never fear. For a bit you'd better play about
and make models of the things you want to do."
They did as he told them like obedient sons.
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