Rollo in the Woods

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[Illustration: ROLLO ON THE TREE BRIDGE. Page 14.]

THE

ROLLO STORY BOOKS

BY

JACOB ABBOTT.

ROLLO IN THE WOODS.

Boston:

PHILLIPS, SAMPSON &COMPANY,

PUBLISHERS.

Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1857, by

PHILLIPS, SAMPSON &CO.,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

ROLLO AT PLAY

IN

THE WOODS.

* * * * *

One pleasant morning in the autumn, when Rollo was about five years old, he was sitting on the platform, behind his father's house, playing. He had a hammer and nails, and some small pieces of board. He was trying to make a box. He hammered and hammered, and presently he dropped his work down and said, fretfully,

"O dear me!"

"What is the matter, Rollo?" said Jonas,-for it happened that Jonas was going by just then, with a wheelbarrow.

"I wish these little boards would not split so. I cannot make my box."

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