_pleasure_."

"O, we have got resolution enough," said Rollo.

"What duty do you think we had better do?" asked Lucy.

"If I were you," replied Rollo's mother, "I should first of all sit down
and have a good reading lesson."

Rollo and Lucy hesitated a little, but they concluded to take their
mother's advice at last, and went to Rollo's little library, and chose a
book, and then went down to the back entry, and sat down there, on a
long cricket, and began to read.

At first, it was rather hard to do it, for it did not look very pleasant
to either of them to sit down and read, just at the time when they
expected to be gathering blueberries on the mountain. Rollo said, when
they were opening the hook and finding the place, that, if they had
gone, they should, by that time, have just about arrived at the foot of
the mountain.

"Yes," said Lucy, "but we must not think of that now. Besides, just see
how it rains. It would be a fine time now to go up a mountain, wouldn't
it?"

Rollo looked out of the open door, and saw the rain pouring down into
the yard, and felt again ashamed to recollect how he had insisted that
it was not going to rain.

Lucy said it was beautiful to see it pouring down so fast. "Look," said