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wheelbarrow, but to return to his basket, but yet wished him to do just as he thought best himself. When she had returned to the house, Rollo went on with his load, slowly and with great difficulty. He succeeded, however, in working it along
"The wheelbarrow!" said Jonas. "Are you doing it with the wheelbarrow?" "No. I am not picking up chips now at all. I am piling wood. I _did_ have the wheelbarrow." In the mean time, the cow walked along through the yard and out of the gate into the field, and Jonas said he must go on immediately after her, to drive her back into the pasture, and put up the fence, and so he could
Some time was spent in trying experiments with them in various ways; but he could not succeed very well; so he began again industriously to put them into his basket. When he got the basket nearly full, the second time, he thought he was
Rollo did, accordingly, open the gate and run up the yard, and presently he saw the cow coming in, with Jonas after her. "Jonas," said Rollo, "how came our cow in among all those?" "She got out of the pasture somehow," said Jonas, in reply, "and I must go
tired, and that it would be a good plan to take a little time for rest; and he would go and see Jonas a little while. Now his various interruptions and delays, his conversation with his mother, the delay in getting the basket, and his house-building, had occupied considerable time; so that, when he went back to Jonas, it was
"What are you tired of?" said Jonas. "What have you been doing?" Rollo had no answer at hand, for he had not been doing any thing at all. The truth was, it was pleasanter for him to sit on the log and sing, and see Jonas mend the wheelbarrow, than to go to work himself; and he mistook that feeling for being tired. Boys often do so when they are set to work.
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