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Rollo at Play, Or, Safe Amusements

Rollo at Play, Or, Safe Amusements

Abbott, Jacob

Paperback

General Juvenile Fiction

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ISBN10: 1151426563
ISBN13: 9781151426567
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.14 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ...and when they boast what good things they do, they are very likely to be just on the eve of doing exactly the opposite. In a moment Jonas came back out of the parlor, and said, as he passed through, Self-praise Goes but little ways; a short piece of versification which all boys and girls would do well to remember. Now it happened that, all this time, Rollo's mother was sitting in a little bedroom, which had a door opening into the entry where Lucy and Rollo had been reading, and she heard all the conversation. She knew that though Rollo was generally a good boy, and was willing to know his faults, and often endeavored to correct them, still that he was, like all other boys, prone to selfishness and to vanity, and she thought that she must take some way to show him clearly what the truth really was, about his disinterestedness. In a few minutes, therefore, she went out of the room, and took from the store closet an apple and a pear. They were both good, but the pear was particularly fine. It was large, mellow, and juicy. She then went back to her seat, and called, - Rollo. Rollo came running to her. Here, said she, is an apple and a pear for you. Is one forme and one for Lucy? said he. That is just as you please. I give them both to you. You may do what you choose with them. Rollo took the fruit, much pleased, and walked slowly back, hesitating what to do. He thought he must certainly give one to Lucy, and as he had just been boasting that he preferred another's pleasure to his own, he was ashamed to offer her the apple; and yet he wanted the pear very much himself. If he had had a little more time, he would have hit upon a plan which would have removed all the difficulty at once, by dividing both the apple and the pear, and...

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