The brothers of these little girls learned carpentry, when they were old enough to handle tools with safety.

Would anybody believe," continues M. Malouet, "that M. Necker had an idea of inventing a ground-slip, a falling-in of the cellars of the Menus, and of throwing down during the night the carpentry of the grand room, in order to remove and install the three orders separately?

"You thoroughly understand carpentry?" asked the senator.