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The only sole vehicle here is Mr. Miller's little wagon, and that will hold but two. 'So I understand. Those strawberries are not bad, he said, appealing to Wych Hazel. 'A very mild form of praise, Mr. Rollo. Harmless and inoffensive to berries. What will you do, then, Mr. Falkirk? seeing there are five of us. 'I am in a strait.
"I don't exactly understand how they do it," said Rollo. "Let me explain it to you, then," replied Mr. George. "Listen attentively, and picture to your mind precisely what I describe, and see if you understand. "First," continued Mr. George, "imagine that you are down by the sea shore, where the canal ends.
"I suppose they catch the fish in the lake, and then put them in that pen and keep them there till they are ready to eat them." So they walked on. Presently Rollo saw some of the pond lilies growing in the stream, the course of which was here, for a short distance, near the road. "I wish very much, mother," said he, "that I could get one of those pond lilies for you, but I cannot.
"I don't think there are a great many streets," said Rollo. "There were none at all at Herculaneum." "Ah, but Herculaneum is a very different thing," said Mrs. Gray. "Herculaneum was buried up very deep with solid lava, and only a very small portion of it has been explored, and that you go down into as you would into a cellar or a mine.
And yet they themselves act in just such a way when they allow themselves to get out of temper. It is very dangerous to allow ourselves to become vexed and angry. We then do and say the most unreasonable things, without being aware, ourselves, of their unreasonableness and folly. Rollo himself did not know how his conduct appeared to the other children, and how it sunk him in their good opinion.
When you are doing any thing only for the amusement of it, without any useful result, it is play. Still, in one sense, your wheeling the sand was work. But it was not very useful work; you will admit that.” “Yes, sir,” said Rollo. “Well, boys, how should you like to do some useful work for me, with your wheelbarrows? I will hire you.”
Accordingly, after he and Rollo had finished their dinner, which they took at a round table near a window in the coffee room, he asked Rollo to ring the bell. Rollo did so, and a waiter came in. "Send me in a commissioner, if you please," said Mr. George. "Very well, sir," said the waiter, with a bow.
'Norse habit, say rather, said Rollo, shaking his head; 'Norse habit, induced by Norse necessity. In many a Norwegian homestead you would get little besides porridge, often. But Gyda likes it, and so do I. At any rate, it is invariable for a Norse meal, in this house. It is one of the things which can be transplanted.
"Why, we walked along the quay," said Rollo, "a long way, past several bridges, until at last we came to a bridge leading over to an island in the river, where there was a great cathedral church, which uncle George said he wished to see. It was the Church of Notre Dame. It was an immense great church, with two towers very high; but it was very old.
"Why, I am travelling with him," said Copley; "but he has no business on that account to lord it over me. I have as good a right to have my way as he has to have his." Some further conversation then followed between Copley and Rollo, in which the former said that he had been for several weeks in Rome, in company with his brother. He had an uncle, too, in town, he said, at another hotel.
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