“So you will,” said Rollo; “I did not think of that.”
The boys paused at this unexpected difficulty; at last, Rollo said he might give his two cents back to his father, and then they should have both alike.
Just then the boys heard some one calling,
“Rollo!”
Rollo looked up, and saw his mother at the chamber window. She was sitting there at work, and had heard their conversation.
“What, mother?” said Rollo.
“You might give him one of yours, and then you will both have twenty-two.”
They thought that this would be a fine [pg 96]plan, and wondered why they had not thought of it before. A few days afterwards, they decided to buy two little shovels with their money, one for each, so that they might shovel sand and gravel easier than with the wooden shovels that Jonas made.