Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 12260-h.htm or 12260-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/1/2/2/6/12260/12260-h/12260-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/1/2/2/6/12260/12260-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through the Florida Board of Education, Division of Colleges and Universities, PALMM Project, 2001. (Preservation and Access for American and British Children's Literature, 1850-1869.) See http://fulltext10.fcla.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c= juv&idno=UF00001875&format=jpg or http://fulltext10.fcla.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c= juv&idno=UF00001875&format=pdf JONAS ON A FARM IN WINTER. BY JACOB ABBOTT Author of the Rollo Books MDCCCLI. [Illustration: Jonas stopping at the house of Mr. Edwards.] PREFACE. This little work, with its companion, _Jonas On A Farm In Summer_, is intended as the continuation of a series, the first two volumes of which, _Jonas's Stories_ and _Jonas A Judge_, have already been published. They are all designed, not merely to interest and amuse the juvenile reader, but to give him instruction, by exemplifying the principles of honest integrity, and plain practical good sense, in their application to the ordinary circumstances of childhood. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Morning CHAPTER II. Commanding And Obeying CHAPTER III. Franco CHAPTER IV. Dog Lost CHAPTER V. Signs Of A Storm CHAPTER VI. The Rescue CHAPTER VII. A Fire CHAPTER VIII. The Carding-Mill CHAPTER IX. Difficulty CHAPTER X. A Surprise CHAPTER XI. The Snow Fort, Or Good For Evil CHAPTER I. MORNING Early one winter morning, while Jonas was living upon the farm, in the employment of Oliver's father, he came groping down, just before daylight, into the great room. The great room was, as its name indicated, quite large, occupying a considerable portion of the lower floor of the farmer's house. There was a very spacious fireplace in one side, with a settle, which was a long seat, with a very high back, near it. The room was used both for kitchen and parlor, and there was a great variety of furniture in different parts of it. There were chairs and tables, a bookcase with a desk below, a loom in one corner by a window, and a spinning-wheel near it. Then, there were a great many doors. One led out into the back yard, one up stairs, one into a back room,--which was used for coarse work, and which was generally called the kitchen,--and one into a large store closet adjoining the great room.