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Title: Rollo's Museum

Author: Jacob Abbott

Release Date: May 20, 2008 [EBook #25548]

Language: English

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ROLLO'S

MUSEUM.

BY THE

AUTHOR OF ROLLO LEARNING TO TALK, TO
READ, AT WORK, AT PLAY, AT SCHOOL,
AT VACATION, &c.

BOSTON:
WEEKS, JORDAN, AND COMPANY.
1839.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839,

By T. H. CARTER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED AT THE
BOSTON TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY

[Illustration: Henry made a sudden plunge after him. _Page 119._]

CONTENTS.

Page.

THE CANAL 9
A FALSE ALARM 34
THE HEMLOCK-SEED 46
A LITTLE LAW 60
CONFUSION 77
ORGANIZATION 88
CAUGHT,--AND GONE AGAIN 106
THE BAILMENT CASES 120
THE CURIOSITIES 136
THE SEA-SHORE 154
THE CLIFFS 167
THE THREE NORTHMEN 179

ROLLO'S MUSEUM.

THE CANAL.

It happened one summer, when Rollo was between seven and eight years of
age, that there was a vacation at the school which he was attending at
that time. The vacation commenced in the latter part of August, and was
to continue for four or five weeks. Rollo had studied pretty hard at
school, and he complained that his eyes ached sometimes.

The da