Rollo's Museum

March, and the snow had become so consolidated by the warm sun in the days, and the hard frosts at night, that it would bear the children to walk upon it. The children called

they were going to put upon the sled such things as they should need, and Rollo was to

r part of the preparation. Rollo got his axe, and one or two boards a little longer than the sled, which he said were to make seats. He

but it was not heavy, and Rollo drew it along very easily. They were not obliged to confine themselves to the roads and paths, for the snow was hard in every direction,

told them that probably it would begin to grow soft before they came home, and, if so, they would have to come home in a certain s

ere all covered with snow, and the little stream, which in summer flowed from the spring, was frozen and buried up entirel

em to sit upon. Then Rollo built a fire of sticks, which he gathered in the wood. The ground was covered with snow, so that it would have been very difficult for him to have found any sticks, were it not that some kinds of trees, in the woods, have a gre

w at a little distance, and, after the

mountains. There is a hill for

"if you will cut us

, and two for himself. These he trimmed up smoothly, and each of the children took one in each hand. They played that Rollo was the guide, and Lucy w

e much snow, it would make it hard for Nathan to get home, and she thought that they had better go down the mountain immediately, and set

irst piled on all the hemlock branches,-which made a great crackling. The snow began to fall faster.

re him; and the old snow covered the ground, so as to hide all the old marks, and to alter the general aspect of the fields so much, that Rollo was completely lost. He, how

"Here is a track, where somebody

e boys, who have gone

d gone along. Rollo wondered whose track it could be. He said that he thought it very probable it wa

the track a little way, and see what it lea

rned along in the tr

boys;-the track is going the other way. But never mind," she added, "I

ing it, as he was doing, it would lead him back home. He had, however, a great cu

pment; and the track which they were following was their own track, leading them back to the mouldering remains of their own fire. They had gone round in a great circle, and come back upon their own

to the woods, where the tops of the trees would act as a sort of umbrella, to keep the snow from falling upon t

ke a hut of hemlock branches, and

u know but that it will snow all day?

in great flakes, it is not goin

d the attention of all the children was called off by a little bird, which they saw there, hopping ab

Nathan; "we'll carry her ho

lo, "I'll carry

cap on your head, or you will take

Nathan. I'll tell you what we will do. We

gly put the bird in the basket, and Rollo contrived to

; and they immediately set out for home. Rollo drew the sled, with the basket and bird upon it, secured as before w

day, and then, as it was mild an

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lting? How did Rollo get sticks for his fire? What name did he give to the hill which they ascended? What occasioned the difficulty in the way of Rollo's finding his way home?

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