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Rollo in the Woods, by Jacob Abbott
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Title: Rollo in the Woods
Author: Jacob Abbott
Release Date: September 7, 2006 [EBook #19195]
Language: English
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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.
CONTENTS.
ROLLO AT PLAY IN THE WOODS.
THE SETTING OUT.
BRIDGE-BUILDING.
A VISITOR.
DIFFICULTY.
HEARTS WRONG.
HEARTS RIGHT AGAIN.
ROLLO AT PLAY
IN
THE WOODS.
* * * * *
THE SETTING OUT.
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,