wood in the shed, if he would not take care of them for him, till he
came back.

"Why, yes," said Jonas, "I will take care of them if you wish; but what
are you going to leave them for?"

"O, so that I can run faster," said Rollo.

"Run faster? I do not think you will run much, up old Benalgon, unless
he holds his back down lower than when I went up."

Rollo did not mean that he was going to run up the mountain, but he did
not explain what he did mean, for he thought that Jonas would laugh at
him, if he told him he was afraid of the bears. So he said, "Jonas,
don't you wish you were going with us?"

"I should like it well enough, but I must stay at home and mind my
work."

"I wish you could go. I will go and ask my father if he will not let
you."

Rollo ran into the house with great haste and eagerness, leaving all the
doors open, and calling out, "Father, father," as soon as he had begun
to open the parlor door.

"Father, father," said he, running up to him, "I wish you would let
Jonas go with us to-morrow."

Now, Rollo's father had come home but a short time before, and was just