The

Rollo Books

by

Jacob Abbott

Boston, Phillips, Sampson, & Co.

Rollo At Work

Or

The Way to Be Industrious

Notice to Parents.

Although this little work, and its fellow, “Rollo At Play,” are intended principally as a means of entertainment for their little readers, it is hoped by the writer that they may aid in accomplishing some of the following useful purposes:—

1. In cultivating the thinking powers; as frequent occasions occur, in which the incidents of the narrative, and the conversations arising from them, are intended to awaken and engage the reasoning and reflective faculties of the little readers.

2. In promoting the progress of children in reading and in knowledge of language; for the diction of the stories is intended to be often in advance of the natural language of the reader, and yet so used as to be explained by the connection.

3. In cultivating the amiable and gentle qualities of the heart. The scenes are laid in quiet and virtuous life, and the character and conduct described are generally—with the exception of some of the ordinary exhibitions of childish folly—character and conduct to be imitated; for it is generally better, in dealing with children, to allure them to what is right by agreeable pictures of it, than to attempt to drive them to it by repulsive delineations of what is wrong.

Contents

• Story 1. Labor Lost
• Elky.
• Preparations.
• A Bad Beginning.
• What Rollo Might Do.
• A New Plan.
• Hirrup! Hirrup!
• An Overturn.
• Story 2. The Two Little Wheelbarrows.
• Rides.
• The Corporal's.
• The Old Nails.
• A Conversation.
• Rollo Learns to Work at Last.
• The Corporal's Again.
• Story 3. Causey-Building.
• Sand-Men.
• The Gray Garden.
• A Contract.
• Instructions.
• Keeping Tally.
• Rights Defined.
• Calculation.
• Story 4. Rollo's Garden.
• Farmer Cropwell.
• Work and Play.
• Planting.
• The Trying Time.
• A Narrow Escape.
• Advice.
• Story 5. The Apple-Gathering.
• The Garden-House.
• Jolly.
• The Pet Lamb.
• The Meadow-Russet.
• Insubordination.
• Subordination.
• The New Plan Tried.
• A Present.
• The Strawberry-Bed.
• The Farmer's Story.
• Story 6. Georgie.
• The Little Landing.
• Georgie's Money.
• Two Good Friends.
• A Lecture On Playthings.
• The Young Drivers.
• The Toy-Shop.

Engravings

• Rollo Digging Holes in the Ground.
• Too Heavy.
• The Corporal's.
• Rollo Took Hold of His Wheelbarrow.
• The Cows.
• The Bull Chained by the Nose.
• Work in the Rain.
• The Harvesting Party.
• There, Said He, See How Men Work.
• Georgie's Apples.