could not make up his mind. That
evening he asked Jonas about it, and Jonas advised him to ask his father
to let him have both. "Then," said he, "you can work on your real garden
as long as there is any necessary work to be done, and then you could go
and play about the other with James or Lucy, when they are here."

Rollo went off immediately, and asked his father. His father said there
would be some difficulties about that; but he would think of it, and see
if there was any way to avoid them.

The next morning, when he came in to breakfast, he had a paper in his
hand, and he told Rollo he had concluded to let him have the two gardens,
on certain conditions, which he had written down. He opened the paper, and
read as follows:--

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"_Conditions on which I let Rollo have two pieces of land to cultivate_;
the one to be called his _working-garden_, and the other his
_playing-garden_.

"1. In cultivating his working-garden, he is to take Jonas's advice, and
to follow it faithfully in every respect.

"2. He is not to go and work upon his playing-garden, at any time, when
there is any work that ought to be done on his working-garden.

"3. If he lets his working-garden get out of order, and I give him notice
of it; then, if it is not put perfectly in order again within three days
after receiving the notice, he is to forfeit the garden, and all that is
growing upon it.

"4. Whatever he raises, he may sell to me, at fair prices, at the end of
the season."

Planting.

Rollo accepted the conditions, and asked his father to stake out the two
pieces of ground for him, as soon as he could; and his father did so that
day. The piece for the working-garden was much the largest. There was a
row of currant-bushes near it, and his father said he might consider all
those opposite his piece of ground as included in it, and belonging to
him.

So Rollo asked Jonas what he had better do first, and Jonas told him that
the first thing was to dig his ground all over, pretty deep; and, as it
was difficult to begin it, Jonas said he would begin it for him. So Jonas
began, and dug along one side, and instructed Rollo how to throw up the
spadefuls of earth out of the way, so that the next spadeful would come up
easier.

Jonas, in this way, made a kind of a trench all along the side of Rollo's
ground; and he told Rollo to be careful to throw every spadeful well
forward, so a