Jonas on a Farm in Winter

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JONAS ON A FARM IN WINTER.

BY JACOB ABBOTT

Author of the Rollo Books

MDCCCLI.

[Illustration: Jonas stopping at the house of Mr. Edwards.]

This little work, with its companion, Jonas On A Farm In Summer, is intended as the continuation of a series, the first two volumes of which, Jonas's Stories and Jonas A Judge, have already been published. They are all designed, not merely to interest and amuse the juvenile reader, but to give him instruction, by exemplifying the principles of honest integrity, and plain practical good sense, in their application to the ordinary circumstances of childhood.

Early one winter morning, while Jonas was living upon the farm, in the employment of Oliver's father, he came groping down, just before daylight, into the great room.

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