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Updated: May 8, 2025
The children are disciplined by freedom, as well as healthful restraint. In this sand-garden they are free. With their little wooden shovels and spoons, and with their hands, they revel in the sand, as all healthy children do. They were no more abashed by our presence than tamed and petted birdlings would be to feed from the hand of those they had learned to love and trust.
They tried to make walks and beds, but they found they had not got as much sand as they wanted. So they concluded to go back and get some more. In fact, they found that, by getting a great many wheelbarrow loads of sand, they could cover over the whole corner, and make a noble large place for a sand-garden.
And, now, here is a luncheon for you in this basket. You may go and eat it where you please.” Rights Defined. So the boys took the basket, and, after they had rubbed out the tally, they went and sat down by their sand-garden, and began to eat the bread and cheese very happily together.
The boys explained how they could not go around the quagmire with their loaded wheelbarrows, and so had to pick their way through it the best way they could; and thus they got their shoes muddy a little; but they said they were as careful as they could be. When they came to the sand-garden, Rollo’s father smiled to see the beds and walks, and the rows of flowers stuck up in the sand.
Rollo explained to his father that they had been making a sand-garden out in a corner of the yard, and they both asked him to go with them and see it. They all three accordingly went out behind the house, the children running on before. “But, boys,” said Rollo’s father, as they went on, “how came your feet so muddy?” “O,” said James, “they got muddy in the quagmire.”
After they had finished their luncheon, they went and got a watering-pot, and began to water their sand-garden, and, while doing it, began to talk about what they should buy with their money. They talked of several things that they should like, and, at last, Rollo said he meant to buy a bow and arrow with his. “A bow and arrow?” said James. “I do not believe your father will let you.”
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