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against the shed. By this means the back side of the pile began soon to be the highest, and the wood slanted forward, so that, when it was up nearly as high as his head, it leaned forward so as to be quite unsteady. Rollo could not imagine what made his pile act so. He thought he would put on one stick more, and then leave it. But, as he was putting on this stick, he found that the whole pile was very unsteady. He put his hand upon it,
"Perhaps he is strong enough for that; but Elky has never learned to work yet." "Never learned!" said Rollo, in great surprise. "Do horses have to _learn_ to work? Why, they have nothing to do but to pull." "Why, suppose," said his father, "that he should dart off at once as soon as he is harnessed, and pull with all his strength, and furiously."
Hirrup! Hirrup! He began to lay the wood regularly upon the ground where his pile was to be, and for a few minutes went on very prosperously. But presently he heard a great trampling in the street, and ran out to see what it was, and found that it was a large herd of cattle driving by--oxen and cows, and
"Mother," said he, as he opened the door into her chamber, "could not you come out and help me get my wheelbarrow along?" "What wheelbarrow?" said his mother. "Why, the great wheelbarrow. I am wheeling chips in it, and I cannot get it along."
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