115

ROLLO GOES A-SHOPPING 138

THE END OF LITTLE ROLLO 154

ILLUSTRATIONS

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Rollo _Frontispiece_

"He was playing with some bright shells" 7

Rollo's Father 13

Rollo's Mother 17

"At everything Rollo said Stella and
Anabelle laughed very loud" 27

"I have been angling in the fountain" 37

"A gentleman in a dress suit took his lunch-box" 49

"Mr. Robbins turned and said something I can not print" 59

"Rollo never dreamed that ladies could be so beautiful" 69

"Rollo, catching the spirit of the evening, joined merrily
in the conversation" 77

"It was but the work of a moment to undress and leap into
bed" 85

"How would you like to visit Greenwich Village?" 95

"Never in his life had Rollo seen such a strange woman" 109

"Round about the great arena stretched thousands of
people" 119

"--it seemed to him that he kissed her" 131

"Everything within was very grand and gloomy" 143

"Can you not imagine Anabelle's joy when she opened all
these presents?" 149

"Gentlemen, with your kind permission I will read a
poem" 161

"--what a happy ending it is!" 169

ROLLO IN SOCIETY

When Rollo was between ten and eleven years old he was seated one day
in the little arbor which Jonas had built for him. He was playing with
some bright stones and shells which his Uncle George had brought him
from the seashore, setting them in rows on the edge of his comfortable
bench or, again, marching them in columns as he had seen the soldiers
go during training-week. One shell in particular, Rollo admired
greatly. It was a large clam-shell in which was a beautiful picture of
a light-house and a ship in the distance and below were the words
"Souvenir of Atlantic City."

"How pretty," thought Rollo, "and how cle