Rollo's Museum

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Abbott Jacob. Rollo's Museum

THE CANAL

A FALSE ALARM

THE HEMLOCK-SEED

A LITTLE LAW

CONFUSION

ORGANIZATION

CAUGHT,—AND GONE AGAIN

THE BAILMENT CASES

THE CURIOSITIES

THE SEA-SHORE

THE CLIFFS

THE THREE NORTHMEN

Отрывок из книги

It happened one summer, when Rollo was between seven and eight years of age, that there was a vacation at the school which he was attending at that time. The vacation commenced in the latter part of August, and was to continue for four or five weeks. Rollo had studied pretty hard at school, and he complained that his eyes ached sometimes.

The day before the vacation commenced, his father became somewhat uneasy about his eyes; and so he took him to a physician, to see what should be done for them. The physician asked Rollo a good many questions, all of which Rollo endeavored to answer as correctly as he could.

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“How?” said Jonas. “I don’t know what you mean.”

“Why, I could not think where all the water came from, to keep the brook running so fast all the time. But now I know that some of it has been coming all the time from this bog. Does it all come from bogs?”

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