Rollo at Play - Safe Amusements by Jacob Abbott
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work they put their money on a large flat stone, on the brink of the
brook. They fixed a great many boughs into their wigwam, weaving them in all around, and thus made a very pleasant little house, leaving a place for a door in front. When they were tired, they went and opened Rollo's little package, and found a fine luncheon in it of bread and butter and pie; which they ate very happily together, sitting on little hemlock branches in the wigwam. DIFFICULTY. After their luncheon, the boys began to talk about the best place for a window for the wigwam. "I think we will have it _this_ side, towards the brook," said James, "and then we can look out to the water." "No," said Rollo, "it will be better to have it _here_, towards where Jonas is working, and then we can look out and see him." "No," said James, "that is not a good plan; I do not want to see Jonas." "And I do not want to see the water," replied Rollo. "It is _my_ wigwam, and I mean to have the window _here_." So saying, he went to the side towards Jonas, and began to take away a bough. James came there too, and said angrily, "The wigwam is mine as much as it is yours, for I helped make it, and I |
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