Rollo at Work

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Abbott Jacob. Rollo at Work

Labor Lost

Elky

Preparations

A Bad Beginning

What Rollo Might Do

A New Plan

Hirrup! Hirrup!

An Overturn

The Two Little Wheelbarrows

Rides

The Corporal's

The Old Nails

A Conversation

Rollo Learns to Work at Last

The Corporal's Again

Causey-Building

Sand-Men

The Gray Garden

A Contract

Instructions

Keeping Tally

Rights Defined

Calculation

Rollo's Garden

Farmer Cropwell

Work and Play

Planting

The Trying Time

A Narrow Escape

Advice

The Apple-Gathering

The Garden-House

Jolly

The Pet Lamb

The Meadow-Russet

Insubordination

Subordination

The New Plan Tried

A Present

The Strawberry-Bed

The Farmer's Story

Georgie

The Little Landing

Georgie's Money

Two Good Friends

A Lecture On Playthings

The Young Drivers

The Toy-Shop

Отрывок из книги

When Rollo was between five and six years old, he was one day at work in his little garden, planting some beans. His father had given him a little square bed in a corner of the garden, which he had planted with corn two days before. He watched his corn impatiently for two days, and, as it did not come up, he thought he would plant it again with beans. He ought to have waited longer.

He was sitting on a little cricket, digging holes in the ground, when he heard a sudden noise. He started up, and saw a strange, monstrous head looking at him over the garden wall. He jumped up, and ran as fast as he could towards the house.

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“Six baskets full,” said Jonas.

“No,” said Rollo.

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