← Transporting the stone when it was once broken was comparatively simple. The horses carried it off in cart−loads, the sheep dragged single blocks, even Muriel and Benjamin yoked themselves into an old governess−cart and did their share. 🔊
← And in his spare moments, of which there were not many nowadays, he would go alone to the quarry, collect a load of broken stone, and drag it down to the site of the windmill unassisted. 🔊
← Having got there, he collected two successive loads of stone and dragged them down to the windmill before retiring for the night. 🔊
← He had gone out alone to drag a load of stone down to the windmill. 🔊