Benny (the little boy), Henry (the big boy), Jesse (the big girl), and Violet (the small girl) lived in a boxcar, that’s why they were called the boxcar children.  They found wood in the boxcar and that’s what they built a shelf out of. But guess what?  Henry worked for the doctor and he was cleaning up his garage and he found some bent nails.  He asked the doctor if he could have them and the doctor let him have them and a hammer.  Henry (the big boy) wanted good nails so he banged the bent sides of the bad nails to straighten them out and now he had some really good nails.  He used the good nails to make a cart and with the cart they carried branches to make a dam to make the pool deeper. They liked the pool and went swimming it one day.