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Title: Rollo in the Woods

Author: Jacob Abbott

Release Date: September 7, 2006 [EBook #19195]

Language: English

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[Illustration: ROLLO ON THE TREE BRIDGE. Page 14.]

THE

ROLLO STORY BOOKS

BY

JACOB ABBOTT.

ROLLO IN THE WOODS.

Boston:
PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & COMPANY,
PUBLISHERS.

Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1857, by
PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

CONTENTS.

ROLLO AT PLAY IN THE WOODS.

THE SETTING OUT.

BRIDGE-BUILDING.

A VISITOR.

DIFFICULTY.

HEARTS WRONG.

HEARTS RIGHT AGAIN.

ROLLO AT PLAY

IN

THE WOODS.

* * * * *

THE SETTING OUT.

One pleasant morning in the autumn, when Rollo was about five years old,
he was sitting on the platform, behind his father's house, playing. He
had a hammer and nails, and some small pieces of board. He was trying to
make a box. He hammered and hammered, and presently he dropped his work
down and said, fretfully,

"O dear me!"

"What is the matter, Rollo?" said Jonas,--for it happened that Jonas was
going by just then, with a wheelbarrow.

"I wish these little boards would not split so. I cannot make my box."

"You drive the nails wrong; you put the wedge sides _with_ the grain."

"The wedge sides!" said Rollo; "what are the wedge sides,--and the
grain? I do not know what you mean."

But Jonas went on, trundling his wheelbarrow; though he looked round and
told Rollo that he could not stop to explain it to him then.

Rollo was discouraged about his box. He thought he would look and see
what Jonas was going to do. Jonas trundled the wheelbarrow along, until
he came opposite the barn-door, and there he put it down. He went into
the barn, and presently came out with an axe. Then he took th