ummit projecting out from the mountain. The front of the rock was
ragged and precipitous, but it was flat and mossy upon the top, and firs
and other evergreen trees grew there, some of them hanging over the
edge.

"I wish I could get up there," said Lucy.

"I wish I could too," said Rollo. "I should like to climb up one of
those trees which hangs over, and then I could look down."

"O, Rollo," said Lucy, "you would not dare to climb up one of those
trees."

"Yes, I should dare to," said Rollo.

Rollo was sometimes a proud, boasting boy, pretending that he could do
great things, and talking very largely. This was one of his greatest
faults; and whenever he seemed to be in this boasting mood, he almost
always got into some difficulty after it. There is a text in the Bible
that was proved true, very often, in Rollo's case. It is this--"Pride
cometh before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." Rollo
had a sad Tall this day, though it was not from that high rock. It was a
different sort of a fall from that, as we shall presently see.

"Lucy," said he again, "I do not believe but that I could get up upon
that rock myself. I can climb rocks."

"O no, you could not," said Lucy.

"Why, yes, I see a way."

"Which way?"

"O, round by that great black log There is a path there through the
bushes."

"O no," said Lucy, "you could not get up there. But there are some boys
by that log; what boys are they?"

Rollo looked. They were some boys which they had seen coming up the
mountain, and Rollo's father had warned him not to go near them. They
had wanted Rollo to go with them before, but his father had forbidden
it. Rollo wanted to go, and now he was glad to see them again; but Lucy
was sorry.

GETTING IN TROUBLE.

The blueberries were very thick and large, and the bottoms of the
baskets were soon covered with them. Each one picked where he found them
most plenty.

Rollo and Lucy kept pretty near together, talking, and gradually strayed
away to some distance from the rest of the party. After a little while,
Rollo looked up, and saw the three boys pretty near them. As soon as
Lucy saw them so near, she moved along towards their parents; and Rollo
ought to have done so too, but he remained where he was, and presently
one of the boys came up to him.

"Why did you not come up where we were?" said he. "They were thicker out
there."

"My father would not let me," said Rollo.

"O, come along," said the