windows?" said Jonas.

"So we can," said both of the boys; and they immediately went to work
collecting branches and weaving them in, leaving a space for a window
both sides. Their quarrelsome feelings were all gone, and they talked
very pleasantly at their work until it was time for them to go home to
dinner.

THE STEEPLE TRAP

[Illustration: "An escape."]

THE STEEPLE TRAP

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THE WAY TO CATCH A SQUIRREL

The afternoon of the day when Rollo and his cousin James made their
wigwam in the woods by the brook, they were at work there again,
employed very harmoniously together, in finishing their edifice, when
suddenly Jonas, who was at work in the woods at a little distance, heard
them both calling to him, in tones of surprise and pleasure--

"O, Jonas, Jonas, come here quick--quick."

Jonas dropped his axe and ran.

When he got near them, they pointed to a log.

"See there;--see;--see there."

"What is it?" said Jonas. "O, I see it," said he.

It was a little squirrel clambering up a raspberry-bush, eating the
raspberries as he went along. He would climb up by the little branches,
and pull in the raspberries in succession, until he got to the topmost
one, when the bush would bend over with his weight until it almost
touched the log.

"Let us catch him," said Rollo, very eagerly; "do let us catch him; I
will go and get our steeple trap."

Jonas did not seem to be so very much delighted as the boys were. He
said he was certainly a cunning little fellow, but "what should we do
with him if we should catch him?"

"O," said Rollo, "we would put him in a little cage. It would be so
complete to have him in a cage! Do, Jonas, do."

"But you have not got any cage."

"We can get one," said James. "We can buy one with our half dollars."

"Well," said Jonas, "it will do no good to set the trap now, for he will
be away before we could get back. But I will come down to-night, and set
the trap, and perhaps we shall catch him, though I do not exactly like
to do it."

"Why?" said the boys.

"O," replied Jonas, "he will not like to be shut up all night, in a
dark box, and then be imprisoned in a cage. He had rather run about
here, and gather raspberries. Besides, you would soon get tired of him
if you had him in a cage."

"O no," said Rollo, "I should not get tired of him."

"Did you ever have any plaything that you were not tired of before
long?"

"Why