and moral discipline; "Caleb," and the
others of its family, will include also _religious_ training, according
to the evangelical views of Christian truth which the author has been
accustomed to entertain, and which he has inculcated in his more serious
writings.

J. A.

CALEB IN THE COUNTRY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I Caleb's Discovery 5

CHAPTER II Trouble 30

CHAPTER III Building the Mole 43

CHAPTER IV A Discussion 54

CHAPTER V The Story of Blind Samuel 61

CHAPTER VI Engineering 68

CHAPTER VII The Sofa 74

CHAPTER VIII The Cart Ride 90

CHAPTER IX The Fire 101

CHAPTER X The Captive 123

CHAPTER XI Mary Anna 129

CHAPTER XII The Walk 148

CHAPTER XIII The Junk 166

POETRY 189

CHAPTER I.

CALEB'S DISCOVERY.

Caleb was a bright-looking, blue-eyed boy, with auburn hair and happy
countenance. And yet he was rather pale and slender. He had been sick.
His father and mother lived in Boston, but now he was spending the
summer at Sandy River country, with his grandmother. His father thought
that if he could run about a few months in the open air, and play among
the rocks and under the trees, he would grow more strong and healthy,
and that his cheeks would not look so pale.

His grandmother made him a blue jacket with bright buttons. _She_ liked
metal buttons, because they would wear longer than covered ones, but
_he_ liked them because they were more beautiful. "Besides," said he, "I
can see my face in them, grandmother."

Little Caleb then went to the window, so as to see his face plainer. He
stood with his back to the window, and held the button so that the light
from the window could shine directly upon it.

"Why grandmother," said Caleb, "I cannot see now so well as I could
before."

"That is because your face is turned away from the light," said she.

"And the button is turned _towards_ the light," said Caleb.

"But when you want to see any thing reflected in a glass, you must have
the light shine upon the thing you want to see reflected, not upon the
glass itself; and I suppose it is so with a bright button."

Then Caleb turned around, so as to have his