Rollo in the Woods
THE SETTING OUT. One pleasant morning in the autumn, when Rollo was about five years old, he was sitting on the platform, behind his father's house, playing. He had a hammer and nails, and some small pieces of board. He was trying to make a box. He hammered and hammered, and presently he dropped his work down and said, fretfully, "O dear me!" "What is the matter, Rollo?" said Jonas,--for it happened that Jonas was going by just then, with a wheelbarrow. "I wish these little boards would not split so. I cannot make my box." "You drive the nails wrong; you put the wedge sides _with_ the grain." "The wedge sides!" said Rollo; "what are the wedge sides,--and the grain? I do not know what you mean."
Vanlock, _and_ 4 Merchants, _of_ Bruges.
Higgen, }
Prigg, }_Three Knavish Beggars_.
Snapp, }
Ferret, }_Two Gentlemen disguised under those
Ginkes, } names of_ Gerrard's _party_.
Clown.
Boores.
Servants.
Guard.
_A_ Sailor.
_WOMEN_.
Jaculin, _Daughter to_ Gerrard, _beloved of_ Hubert.
Bertha _called_ Gertrude, _Daughter to the Duke of_ Brabant, _Mistress to_
Florez.
THE SETTING OUT. One pleasant morning in the autumn, when Rollo was about five years old, he was sitting on the platform, behind his father's house, playing. He had a hammer and nails, and some small pieces of board. He was trying to make a box. He hammered and hammered, and presently he dropped his work down and said, fretfully, "O dear me!" "What is the matter, Rollo?" said Jonas,--for it happened that Jonas was going by just then, with a wheelbarrow. "I wish these little boards would not split so. I cannot make my box." "You drive the nails wrong; you put the wedge sides _with_ the grain." "The wedge sides!" said Rollo; "what are the wedge sides,--and the grain? I do not know what you mean."