1. Inspect the handiwork in an old building in your area. What features would be difficult to duplicate today?

What sort of craftsmen probably worked on this job? Where did they leam their trades? If they were starting over now, how would their work be different? Write a report in which you carefully describe the building and speculate about its builders.

2. Look closely at what young Joseph says and thinks about his grandfather, Old Robert, in Granny Reardun. Write a detailed comparison between Joseph's reactions in that book and the feelings of William in Tom Fobble's Day as he thinks about his grandfather—the same Joseph, now grown old.

3. Joseph pushes his baby brother Charlie down Long Croft in his bassinet.

Years later the bassinet has been recycled as Wicked Winnie, Robert's wagon, and follows the same route on Robert's...