ISBN: 9780217279413

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...your place, said Mr. Wilton, turning to George. No, sir. replied George, who--restored by this time to a sense of propriety and justice--was standing ready to speak for himself. No, sir; Maria is very kind; but I do not wish to take her place; I am very sorry indeed that I said any thing about it. I certainly shall not consent to take your place, Maria, he said, perceiving that she was ready to entreat still further. O! but I do wish you would, said Maria. But just here her. mother interposed. If Maria would really prefer to give up her place to her brother, said Mrs. Wilton, I certainly shall like the arrangement very much, for I am to be particularly engaged this afternoon, and, as Harriet is to be absent, I shall be very glad of some of Maria''s assistance in taking care of the baby. O! well, said Maria, brightening up, then I am sure 1 will not go; so run, George, for father is almost ready to start. Thus the matter was amicably setded. George went with his father, and Maria remained at home to help take care of little Willy. Maria loved her little brother very much, and she never seemed tired of taking care of him, even when he was ever so fretful or restless. She would leave her play, at any moment, to run and rock the baby, or to hold him in her lap; for, even if she felt inclined, at any time, to be a little out of patience for a moment, she would recollect how many hours she had herself been nursed, by night and by day, and she was glad of an opportunity to relieve her mother of some of her care and fatigue. Her cousin, Ellen Weston, called, one afternoon, to ask her to accompany a party of little girls, who were going to gather berries in the wood neai Maria''s house. It happened that Maria had been left with the... Jacob Abbott, Books, Rollo at play Books Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TROUBLE ON THE MOUNTAIN BOASTING. " How pleasant it is here ! " said Rollc to his cousin Lucy, as they were gathering blueberries high up on old Mount Benalgon, the day they went up with Rollo's father and mother, and uncle; " and how thick the blueberries are, Lucy! " " Yes," said Lucy, " they are very thick, 1 think; and how far we can see now, we are up here so high ! I wish we were up on that great high rock." Rollo looked where Lucy pointed, and he saw, away above them, a rocky summit projecting out from the mountain. The front of the rock was ragged and precipitous, but it was flat and mossy upon the top, and firs and other evergreen trees grew there, some of them hanging over the edge. " I wish I could get up there," said Lucy. " I wish I could too," said Rollo. " I should like to climb up one of those trees which hangs over, and then I could look down." " O, Rollo," said Lucy, " you would not dare to climb up one of those trees." " Yes, I should dare to," said Rollo. Rollo was sometimes a proud, boasting boy, pretending that he could do great things, and talking very largely. This was one of his greatest faults; and whenever he seemed to be in this boasting mood, he almost always got into some difficulty after it. There is a text in the Bible that was proved true, very often, in Rollo's case. It is this?" Pride cometh before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." Rollo had a sad fall this day, though it was not from that high rock. It was a different sort of a fall from that, as we shall presently see. " Lucy," said he again, " I do not believe but that I could get up upon thai rock myself. I can climb rocks." " O no, you could not," said Lucy. " Why, yes, I see a way." " Which way ? " ' O, round by that great black log ...<

ISBN: 0217279414