ht, when Rollo went to bed, he lay looking out the window which was
towards the woods, and saw the light still shining among the trees, and
the smoke slowly rising from the fires, and floating away through the
air.

THE HALO ROUND THE MOON;
OR,
LUCY'S VISIT.

[Illustration: "The way to ask a favor."]

THE HALO ROUND THE MOON,
OR,
LUCY'S VISIT.

* * * * *

"A ROUND RAINBOW."

About six miles from the house where Rollo lived, there was a mountain
called Benalgon, which was famous for bears and blueberries. There were
no bears on it, but there were plenty of blueberries. The reason why it
was so famous for bears, when in fact there were none there, was because
the boys and girls that went there for blueberries every year, used to
see black logs and stumps among the trees and bushes of the mountain,
and they would run away very hastily, and insist upon it, when they got
down the mountain, that they had seen a bear.

Now, Rollo's father and mother, together with his uncle George, formed
a plan for going up this mountain after blueberries, and they were going
to take Rollo and his cousin Lucy with them. Uncle George and cousin
Lucy were to come in a chaise to Rollo's house immediately after
breakfast, and Rollo was to ride with them, and his father and mother
were to go in another chaise.

Rollo got his little basket to pick his blueberries in, all ready the
night before, and he got a string to tie around his neck, intending to
hang his basket upon it, so that he could have both his hands at
liberty, and pick faster. He also thought he would take all the heavy
things out of his pocket, so that he could run the faster, in case he
should see any bears. He put them all on a window in the shed. The
things were a knife, a piece of chalk, two white pebble stones, and a
plummet. When he got them all out, he asked Jonas, who was splitting
wood in the shed, if he would not take care of them for him, till he
came back.

"Why, yes," said Jonas, "I will take care of them if you wish; but what
are you going to leave them for?"

"O, so that I can run faster," said Rollo.

"Run faster? I do not think you will run much, up old Benalgon, unless
he holds his back down lower than when I went up."

Rollo did not mean that he was going to run up the mountain, but he did
not explain what he did mean, for he thought that Jonas would laugh at
him, if he told him he was afraid of the b