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baskets. Rollo thought it would be a fine thing to get the chips all in before his father should come home, and he went to work very busily filling his basket the third time. "I can do it quicker," said he to himself. "I can fill the basket a great deal faster than that. I will get it all done in half an hour." So he began to throw in the chips as fast as possible, taking up very large ones too, and tossing them in in any way. Now it happened that he did fill it this time very quick; for the basket being small, and the
When Rollo got back into the yard, he found his father just getting into the wagon to go away. Jonas stood by the horse, having just finished harnessing him. "Father," said Rollo, "I can work. You thought I could not work, but I can. I am going to work to-day while you are gone."
that his father wished to have them put into a kind of a bin in the shed, called the _chip-bin_. So he went into the house for a basket. He found his mother busy; and she said she could not go and get a basket for him; but she told him the chip-basket was probably in its place in the shed, and he might go and get that. "But," said Rollo, "that is too large. I cannot lift that great basket full of chips."
Rollo stood looking at him for some time, wishing that he was going too. But he knew that he must not go without his mother's leave, and that, if he should go in to ask her, Jonas would have gone so far that he should not be able to overtake him. So he went back to his wood-pile. He piled a little more, and as he piled he wondered what Jonas meant by telling him to put the largest ends outwards. He took up a stick which had a knot on one end, which made that end much the largest, and laid it on
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