Rollo at Play; OR, SAFE AMUSEMENTS. by Jacob Abbott [Illustration] Contents NOTICE TO PARENTS. STORY 1. ROLLO AT PLAY IN THE WOODS. The Setting out. Bridge-Building. A Visitor. Difficulty. Hearts wrong. Hearts right again. STORY 2. THE STEEPLE-TRAP. The Way to catch a Squirrel. The Way to lose a Squirrel. How to keep a Squirrel. Fires in the Woods. STORY 3. THE HALO ROUND THE MOON; OR, LUCY’S VISIT. A Round Rainbow. Who knows best, a Little Boy or his Father! Repentance. STORY 4. THE FRESHET. Maria and the Caravan. Small Craft. The Principles of Order. Clearing up. STORY 5. BLUEBERRYING. Old Trumpeter. Deviation. Little Mosette. Going up. The Secret out. STORY 6. TROUBLE ON THE MOUNTAIN. Boasting. Getting in Trouble. A Test of Penitence. ROLLO AT PLAY. THE ROLLO SERIES IS COMPOSED OF FOURTEEN VOLUMES. VIZ. Rollo Learning to Talk. Rollo Learning to Read. Rollo at Work. Rollo at Play. Rollo at School. Rollo’s Vacation. Rollo’s Experiments. Rollo’s Museum. Rollo’s Travels. Rollo’s Correspondence. Rollo’s Philosophy—Water. Rollo’s Philosophy—Air. Rollo’s Philosophy—Fire. Rollo’s Philosophy—Sky. A NEW EDITION, REVISED BY THE AUTHOR. BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, AND COMPANY. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1855, by PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, & CO., in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. NOTICE TO PARENTS. Although this little book, and its fellow, “ROLLO AT WORK,” are intended principally as a means of entertainment for their little readers, it is hoped by the writer that they may aid in accomplishing some of the following useful purposes:— 1. In cultivating _the thinking powers;_ as frequent occasions occur, in which the incidents of the narrative, and the conversations arising from them, are intended to awaken and engage the reasoning and reflective faculties of the little readers. 2. In promoting the progress of children _in reading_ and in knowledge of language; for the diction of the stories is intended to be often in advance of the natural language of the reader, and yet so used as to be explained by the connection. 3. In cultivating the _amiable and gentle qualities of the heart_. The scenes are laid in quiet and virtuous life, and the character and conduct described are generally—with the exception of some of the ordinary exhibitions of childish folly—character and conduct to be imitated; for it is generally better, in dealing with children, to allure them to what is right by agreeable pictures of it, than to attempt to drive them to it by repulsive delineations of what is wrong. ROLLO AT PLAY IN THE WOODS. THE SETTING OUT.