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    Rollo in the Woods
    Rollo in the Woods
    Rollo in the Woods
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    Rollo in the Woods

    By Jacob Abbott

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Rollo in the Woods
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    Jacob Abbott

    Jacob Abbott (1803-1879) was an American author, pastor, and professor. Born Jacob Abbot Ⅲ, he later added a “t” to the end of his name in order to break away from being “the third”. Abbott began his career as a professor of mathematics and philosophy at Amherst college in Massachusetts. He became a licensed preacher in 1826, and later went on to become the founder and pastor of the Eliot Congregational Church. Jacob Abbott wrote many works, including biographies, religious books, and juvenile fiction. By the end of his career, he co-wrote thirty-one titles, and authored one-hundred and eighty books on his own.

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      Rollo in the Woods - Jacob Abbott

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      Title: Rollo in the Woods

      Author: Jacob Abbott

      Release Date: September 7, 2006 [EBook #19195]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROLLO IN THE WOODS ***

      Produced by Barbara Tozier, Joseph R. Hauser, Bill Tozier

      and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

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      ROLLO ON THE TREE BRIDGE. Page 14.

      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.

      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.

      "You drive the nails wrong; you put the wedge sides with the grain."

      The wedge sides! said Rollo; what are the wedge sides,—and the grain? I do not know what you mean.

      But Jonas went on, trundling his wheelbarrow; though he looked round and told Rollo that he could not stop to explain it to him then.

      Rollo was discouraged about his box. He thought he would look and see what Jonas was going to do. Jonas trundled the wheelbarrow along, until he came opposite the barn-door, and there he put it down. He went into the barn, and presently came

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