the children out into the kitchen after a knife. Rollo wanted
to cut the apple and the pear himself, and Lucy made no objection; and
we must do him the justice to say that he gave rather the largest half
of each to Lucy. They then went out into the shed, Rollo taking with him
a dipper of water to wash his feet when he came back from the garden.
Rollo then took off his shoes, and gave Lucy his share of the fruit, to
keep for him, and then sallied forth into the yard, holding the umbrella
over his head, as a few drops of rain were still falling.

He waded into the little pond at the garden gate, and then turned round
to look at Lucy and laugh. He began, too, to caper about in the water,
but Lucy told him to take care, or he would fall down, and they could
not wash his _clothes_, as they could his feet, with their dipper of
water.

So he went carefully forward till he came to the peas, and gathered as
many as he wanted, and then returned.

As he was coming back, he saw Jonas in the barn. Jonas called out to him
to ask what he had got.

"I have been to get some pea-pods," said he, "to make boats with."

"Where are you going to sail them?" said Jonas.

"O, in this little pond, when it is done raining."

"But you had better have a little pond _now_, in the shed."

"How can we?" said Rollo.

"You might have it in a milk-pan."

"So we can. Could you come and get it for us?"

"Yes, in a few minutes--by the time you get your boats made."

Rollo and Lucy were much pleased with this, and they sat down, one on
each side of the milk-pan pond, and sailed their boats a long time. He
cut small pieces of the apple and of the pear for cargo, and Rollo put
in the stem of the pear for the captain of his boat. Each one was
good-humored and obliging, and the time passed away very pleasantly, until
it was near dinner-time. When they came in to dinner, they observed that
it was raining again very fast.

THE PRINCIPLES OF ORDER.

"Father," said Rollo, at the dinner-table, "do you think it will rain
all the afternoon?"

"It looks like it," replied his father, "but why? Do you not enjoy
yourselves in the house?"

"O yes, sir," said Rollo, "we have had a fine time this morning; but
Lucy and I thought that, if it did not rain this afternoon, we might go
out in the garden a little."

"It may clear up towards night; but, if it does, I think it would be
better to go down to the brook and see the freshet, than to go into the
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