Rollo and his young friends build bridges over a brook, set a steeple trap for squirrels, go out on excursions and fall into the small squabbles of childhood, while patient parents help them see where their hearts went wrong. A preface explains that the stories are meant to train reasoning, language and right feeling as much as to amuse.
One of the first Rollo books, which made Abbott a household name in nineteenth-century American nurseries. Download the free EPUB.