“No,” said James, “I was just going to say we would make it your way. I rather think it would be better to make it towards the land.”
“Why can you not have two windows?” said Jonas.
“So we can,” said both of the boys; and they immediately went to work collecting branches and weaving them in, leaving a space for a window both sides. Their quarrelsome feelings were all gone, and they talked very pleasantly at their work until it was time for them to go home to dinner.
They went to work collecting branches and weaving them in.
THE STEEPLE TRAP.
THE WAY TO CATCH A SQUIRREL.
The afternoon of the day when Rollo and his cousin James made their wigwam in the woods by the brook, they were at work there again, employed very harmoniously together, in finishing their edifice, when suddenly Jonas, who was at work in the woods at a little distance, heard them both calling to him, in tones of surprise and pleasure—
“O, Jonas, Jonas, come here quick—quick.”
Jonas dropped his axe and ran.