“O, I wish I had a little beetle and wedge!” said Rollo.
“Perhaps you might make one.”
“O, I could not make an iron wedge—nor the beetle rings.”
“No, but you might make wedges of wood,—pretty hard wood; that would do to split up pieces of pine boards, and then you would not need any rings to your beetle.”
“Jonas can help me,” said Rollo.
“Yes,” said the boy; “Jonas will know all about it.”
So Rollo set out to go home, full of the idea of making a wooden beetle and wedge, so as to split up pieces of boards. He determined, in case he should succeed, to make a smaller one still for Thanny.