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Transcriber's Notes:
The original print starts with a list of novels from the “Rollo series”. This information has been moved to the back of the book.
Unusual spellings that are used consistently have been kept as they were found in the source. Some punctuation errors have been corrected silently. All other corrections are declared in the TEI master file, using the usual TEI elements for corrections.
In particular, four asterisks that appear to be footnote marks without a corresponding footnote have been deleted.
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.
Engravings
- Rollo Digging Holes in the Ground.
- Too Heavy.
- The Corporal's.