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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Georgie + +Author: Jacob Abbott + +Release Date: September 12, 2006 [EBook #19256] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GEORGIE *** + + + + +Produced by Barbara Tozier, Joseph R. Hauser, Bill Tozier +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 324px;"> +<img src="images/frontis.png" width="324" height="468" alt="THE BRIDGE" title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE BRIDGE</span> +</div> + +<p><br /><br /><br /></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 324px;"> +<img src="images/title.png" width="324" height="191" alt="The Rollo Story Books By" title="" /> +</div> + +<h3>JACOB ABBOTT.</h3> + +<p><br /><br /><br /></p> + +<hr /> +<h2>GEORGIE.</h2> +<hr /> + +<p><br /><br /><br /></p> + +<h4>Boston:<br /> +PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & COMPANY,<br /> +PUBLISHERS.</h4> + +<p><br /><br /><br /></p> + +<h6>Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1857, by<br /> +PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.,<br /> +In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.</h6> + +<p><br /><br /><br /></p> + +<h3>CONTENTS.</h3> +<table summary="CONTENTS"> + <tr> + <td class="toc"><a href="#THE_LITTLE_LANDING"><b>THE LITTLE LANDING.</b></a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="toc"><a href="#GEORGIES_MONEY"><b>GEORGIE'S MONEY.</b></a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="toc"><a href="#TWO_GOOD_FRIENDS"><b>TWO GOOD FRIENDS.</b></a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="toc"><a href="#A_LECTURE_ON_PLAYTHINGS"><b>A LECTURE ON PLAYTHINGS.</b></a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="toc"><a href="#THE_YOUNG_DRIVERS"><b>THE YOUNG DRIVERS.</b></a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="toc"><a href="#THE_STORY_OF_SHALLOW_SELFISH_AND_WISE"><b>THE STORY OF SHALLOW, SELFISH, AND WISE.</b></a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="toc"><a href="#THE_TOY-SHOP"><b>THE TOY-SHOP.</b></a></td> + </tr> +</table> + +<p><br /><br /><br /></p> + + + + + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">163</a></span></p> +<h3>GEORGIE.</h3> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h4><a name="THE_LITTLE_LANDING" id="THE_LITTLE_LANDING"></a>THE LITTLE LANDING.</h4> + + +<p>A short distance from where Rollo lives, there is a small, but very +pleasant house, just under the hill, where you go down to the stone +bridge leading over the brook. There is a noble large apple tree on one +side of the house, which bears a beautiful, sweet, and mellow kind of +apple, called golden pippins. A great many other trees and flowers are +around the house, and in the little garden on the side of it towards the +brook. There is a small white gate that leads to the house, from the +road; and there is a pleasant path leading right out from the front +door, through the garden, down to the water. This is the house that +Georgie lives in.</p> + +<p>One evening, just before sunset, Rollo was coming along over the stone +bridge, towards home. He stopped a moment to <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">164</a></span>look over the railing, +down into the water Presently he heard a very sweet-toned voice calling +out to him,</p> + +<p>"Rol-lo."</p> + +<p>Rollo looked along in the direction in which the sound came. It was from +the bank of the stream, a little way from the road, at the place where +the path from Georgie's house came down to the water. The brook was +broad, and the water pretty smooth and still here; and it was a place +where Rollo had often been to sail boats with Georgie. There was a +little smooth, sandy place on the shore, at the foot of the path, and +they used to call it Georgie's landing; and there was a seat close by, +under the bushes.</p> + +<p>Rollo thought it was Georgie's voice that called him, and in a minute, +he saw him sitting on his little seat, with his crutches by his side. +Georgie was a sick boy. He could not walk, but had to sit almost all +day, at home, in a large easy chair, which his father had bought for +him. In the winter, his chair was established in a particular corner, by +the side of the fire, <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">165</a></span>and he had a little case of shelves and drawers, +painted green, by the side of him. In these shelves and drawers he had +his books and playthings,—his pen and ink,—his paint-box, brushes and +pencils,—his knife, and a little saw,—and a great many things which he +used to make for his amusement. Then, in the summer, his chair, and his +shelves and drawers, were moved to the end window, which looked out upon +the garden and brook. Sometimes, when he was better than usual, he could +move about a little upon crutches; and, at such times, when it was +pleasant, he used to go out into the garden, and down, through it, to +his landing, at the brook.</p> + +<p>Georgie had been sick a great many years, and when Rollo and Jonas first +knew him, he used to be very sad and unhappy. It was because the poor +little fellow had nothing to do. His father had to work pretty hard to +get food and clothing for his family; he loved little Georgie very much, +but he could not buy him many things. Sometimes people who visited him, +used to give him playthings, and they would amuse him a little while, +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">166</a></span>but he soon grew tired of them, and had them put away. It is very hard +for any body to be happy who has not any thing to do.</p> + +<p>It was Jonas that taught Georgie what to do. He lent him his knife, and +brought him some smooth, soft, pine wood, and taught him to make +wind-mills and little boxes. Georgie liked this very much, and used to +sit by his window in the summer mornings, and make playthings, hours at +a time. After he had made several things, Jonas told the boys that lived +about there, that they had better buy them of him, when they had a few +cents to spend for toys; and they did. In fact, they liked the little +windmills, and wagons, and small framed houses that Georgie made, better +than sugar-plums and candy. Besides, they liked to go and see Georgie; +for, whenever they went to buy any thing of him, he looked so contented +and happy, sitting in his easy chair, with his small and slender feet +drawn up under him, and his work on the table by his side.</p> + +<p>Then he was a very beautiful boy too. His face was delicate and pale, +but there was such a kind and gentle expression in his mild blue eye, +and so much sweetness <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">167</a></span>in the tone of his voice, that they loved very +much to go and see him. In fact, all the boys were very fond of Georgie.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h4><a name="GEORGIES_MONEY" id="GEORGIES_MONEY"></a>GEORGIE'S MONEY.</h4> + + +<p>Georgie, at length, earned, in this way, quite a little sum of money. It +was nearly all in cents; but then there was one fourpence which a lady +gave him for a four-wheeled wagon that he made. He kept this money in a +corner of his drawer, and, at last, there was quite a handful of it.</p> + +<p>One summer evening, when Georgie's father came home from his work, he +hung up his hat, and came and sat down in Georgie's corner, by the side +of his little boy. Georgie looked up to him with a smile.</p> + +<p>"Well, father," said he, "are you tired to-night?"</p> + +<p>"You are the one to be tired, Georgie," said he, "sitting here alone all +day."</p> + +<p>"Hold up your hand, father," said Georgie, reaching out his own at the +same time, which was shut up, and appeared to have something in it.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">168</a></span></p><p>"Why, what have you got for me?" said his father.</p> + +<p>"Hold fast all I give you," replied he; and he dropped the money all +into his father's hand, and shut up his father's fingers over it.</p> + +<p>"What is all this?" said his father.</p> + +<p>"It is my money," said he, "for you. It is 'most all cents, but then +there is <i>one</i> fourpence."</p> + +<p>"I am sure, I am much obliged to you, Georgie, for this."</p> + +<p>"O no," said Georgie, "it's only a <i>little</i> of what you have to spend +for me."</p> + +<p>Georgie's father took the money, and put it in his pocket, and the next +day he went to Jonas, and told him about it, and asked Jonas to spend it +in buying such things as he thought would be useful to Georgie; either +playthings, or tools, or materials to work with.</p> + +<p>Jonas said he should be very glad to do it, for he thought he could buy +him some things that would help him very much in his work. Jonas carried +the money into the city the next time he went, and bought him a small +hone to sharpen his knife, a fine-toothed saw, and a bottle of black +var<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">169</a></span>nish, with a little brush, to put it on with. He brought these +things home, and gave them to Georgie's father; and he carried them into +the house, and put them in a drawer.</p> + +<p>That evening, when Georgie was at supper, his father slyly put the +things that Jonas had bought on his table, so that when he went back, +after supper, he found them there. He was very much surprised and +pleased. He examined them all very particularly, and was especially glad +to have the black varnish, for now he could varnish his work, and make +it look much more handsome. The little boxes that he made, after this, +of a bright black outside, and lined neatly with paper within, were +thought by the boys to be elegant.</p> + +<p>He could now earn money faster, and, as his father insisted on having +all his earnings expended for articles for Georgie's own use, and Jonas +used to help him about expending it, he got, at last, quite a variety of +implements and articles. He had some wire, and a little pair of pliers +for bending it in all shapes, and a hammer and little nails. He had also +a paint-box and brushes, and paper of various colors, for <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">170</a></span>lining boxes, +and making portfolios and pocket-books; and he had varnishes, red, +green, blue, and black. All these he kept in his drawers and shelves, +and made a great many ingenious things with them.</p> + +<p>So Georgie was a great friend of both Rollo and Jonas, and they often +used to come and see him, and play with him; and that was the reason +that Rollo knew his voice so well, when he called to him from the +landing, when Rollo was standing on the bridge, as described in the +beginning of this story.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h4><a name="TWO_GOOD_FRIENDS" id="TWO_GOOD_FRIENDS"></a>TWO GOOD FRIENDS.</h4> + + +<p>Rollo ran along to the end of the bridge, clambered down to the water's +edge, went along the shore among the trees and shrubbery, until he came +to the seat where Georgie was sitting. Georgie asked him to sit down, +and stay with him; but Rollo said he must go directly home; and so +Georgie took his crutches, and they began to walk slowly together up the +garden walk.</p> + +<p>"Where have you been, Rollo?" said Georgie.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">171</a></span></p><p>"I have been to see my cousin James, to ask him to go to the city with +us to-morrow."</p> + +<p>"Are you going to the city?"</p> + +<p>"Yes; uncle George gave James and I a half a dollar apiece, the other +day; and mother is going to carry us into the city to-morrow to buy +something with it."</p> + +<p>"Is Jonas going with you?"</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Rollo. "He is going to drive. We are going in our carryall."</p> + +<p>"I wish you would take some money for me, then, and get Jonas to buy me +something with it."</p> + +<p>"Well, I will," said Rollo. "What shall he buy for you?"</p> + +<p>"O, he may buy any thing he chooses."</p> + +<p>"Yes, but if you do not tell him what to buy, he may buy something you +have got already."</p> + +<p>"O, Jonas knows every thing I have got as well as I do."</p> + +<p>Just then they came up near the house, and Georgie asked Rollo to look +up at the golden pippin tree, and see how full it was.</p> + +<p>"That is my branch," said he.</p> + +<p>He pointed to a large branch which came out on one side, and which hung +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">172</a></span>down loaded with fruit. It would have broken down, perhaps, if there had +not been a crotched pole put under it, to prop it up.</p> + +<p>"But all the apples on your branch are not golden pippins," said Rollo. +"There are some on it that are red. What beautiful red apples!"</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Georgie. "Father grafted that for me, to make it bear +rosy-boys. I call the red ones my rosy-boys."</p> + +<p>"Grafted?" said Rollo; "how did he graft it?"</p> + +<p>"O," said Georgie, "I do not know exactly. He cut off a little branch +from a rosy-boy tree, and stuck it on somehow, and it grew, and bears +rosy-boys still."</p> + +<p>Rollo thought this was very curious; Georgie told him he would give him +an apple, and that he might have his choice—a pippin or a rosy-boy.</p> + +<p>Rollo hesitated, and looked at them, first at one, and then at another; +but he could not decide. The rosy-boys had the brightest and most +beautiful color, but then the pippins looked so rich and mellow, that he +could not choose very easily; and so Georgie laughed, and told him he +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">173</a></span>would settle the difficulty by giving him one of each.</p> + +<p>"So come here," said he, "Rollo, and let me lean on you, while I knock +them down."</p> + +<p>So Rollo came and stood near him, while Georgie leaned on him, and with +his crutch gave a gentle tap to one of each of his kinds of apples, and +they fell down upon the soft grass, safe and sound.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 324px;"> +<img src="images/fig015.png" width="324" height="298" alt="Picking Apples" title="" /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">174</a></span></p><p>They then went into the house, and Georgie gave Rollo his money, wrapped +up in a small piece of paper; and then Rollo, bidding him good by, went +out of the little white gate, and walked along home.</p> + +<p>The next morning, soon after breakfast, Jonas drove the carryall up to +the front door, and Rollo and his mother walked out to it. Rollo's +mother took the back seat, and Rollo and Jonas sat in front, and they +drove along.</p> + +<p>They called at the house where James lived, and found him waiting for +them on the front steps, with his half dollar in his hand.</p> + +<p>He ran into the house to tell his mother that the carryall had come, and +to bid her good morning, and then he came out to the gate.</p> + +<p>"James," said Rollo, "you may sit on the front seat with Jonas, if you +want to."</p> + +<p>James said he should like to very much; and so Rollo stepped over +behind, and sat with his mother. This was kind and polite; for boys all +like the front seat when they <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">175</a></span>are riding, and Rollo therefore did right +to offer it to his cousin.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h4><a name="A_LECTURE_ON_PLAYTHINGS" id="A_LECTURE_ON_PLAYTHINGS"></a>A LECTURE ON PLAYTHINGS.</h4> + + +<p>After a short time, they came to a smooth and pleasant road, with trees +and farmhouses on each side; and as the horse was trotting along +quietly, Rollo asked his mother if she could not tell them a story.</p> + +<p>"I cannot tell you a story very well, this morning, but I can give you a +lecture on playthings, if you wish."</p> + +<p>"Very well, mother, we should like that," said the boys.</p> + +<p>They did not know very well what a lecture was, but they thought that +any thing which their mother would propose would be interesting.</p> + +<p>"Do you know what a lecture is?" said she.</p> + +<p>"Not exactly," said Rollo.</p> + +<p>"Why, I should explain to you about playthings,—the various kinds, +their use, the way to keep them, and to derive the most pleasure from +them, &c. Giving you <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">176</a></span>this information will not be as <i>interesting</i> to +you as to hear a story; but it will be more <i>useful</i>, if you attend +carefully, and endeavor to remember what I say."</p> + +<p>The boys thought they should like the lecture, and promised to attend. +Rollo said he would remember it all; and so his mother began.</p> + +<p>"The value of a plaything does not consist in itself, but in the +pleasure it awakens in your mind. Do you understand that?"</p> + +<p>"Not very well," said Rollo.</p> + +<p>"If you should give a round stick to a baby on the floor, and let him +strike the floor with it, he would be pleased. You would see by his +looks that it gave him great pleasure. Now, where would this pleasure +be,—in the stick, or in the floor, or in the baby?"</p> + +<p>"Why, in the baby," said Rollo, laughing.</p> + +<p>"Yes; and would it be in his body, or in his mind?"</p> + +<p>"In his face," said James.</p> + +<p>"In his eyes," said Rollo.</p> + +<p>"You would see the <i>signs of it</i> in his face and in his eyes, but the +feeling of <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">177</a></span>pleasure would be in his mind. Now, I suppose you understand +what I said, that the value of the plaything consists in the pleasure it +can awaken in the mind."</p> + +<p>"Yes, mother," said Rollo.</p> + +<p>"There is your jumping man," said she; "is that a good plaything?"</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Rollo, "my <i>kicker</i>. But I don't care much about it. I don't +know where it is now."</p> + +<p>"What was it?" said James. "<i>I</i> never saw it."</p> + +<p>"It was a pasteboard man," said his mother; "and there was a string +behind, fixed so that, by pulling it, you could make his arms and legs +fly about."</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Rollo, "I called him my <i>kicker</i>."</p> + +<p>"You liked it very much, when you first had it."</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Rollo, "but I don't think it is very pretty now."</p> + +<p>"That shows what I said was true. When you first had it, it was new, and +the sight of it gave you pleasure; but the pleasure consisted in the +novelty and drollery of it, and after a little while, when you became +familiar with it, it ceased to <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">178</a></span>give you pleasure, and then you did not +value it. I found it the other day lying on the ground in the yard, and +took it up and put it away carefully in a drawer."</p> + +<p>"But if the value is all gone, what good does it do to save it?" said +Rollo.</p> + +<p>"The value to <i>you</i> is gone, because you have become familiar with it, +and so it has lost its power to awaken feelings of pleasure in you. But +it has still power to give pleasure to other children, who have not seen +it, and I kept it for them."</p> + +<p>"I should like to see it, very much," said James. "I never saw such a +one."</p> + +<p>"I will show it to you some time. Now, this is one kind of +plaything,—those which please by their <i>novelty</i> only. It is not +generally best to buy such playthings, for you very soon get familiar +with them, and then they cease to give you pleasure, and are almost +worthless."</p> + +<p>"Only we ought to keep them, if we have them, to show to other boys," +said Rollo.</p> + +<p>"Yes," said his mother. "You ought never to throw them away, or leave +them on the floor, or on the ground."</p> + +<p>"O, the little fool," said Rollo suddenly.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">179</a></span></p><p>His mother and James looked up, wondering what Rollo meant. He was +looking out at the side of the carryall, at something about the wheel.</p> + +<p>"What is it," said his mother.</p> + +<p>"Why, here is a large fly trying to light on the wheel, and every time +his legs touch it, it knocks them away. See! See!"</p> + +<p>"Yes, but you must not attend to him now. You must listen to my lecture. +You promised to give your attention to me."</p> + +<p>So James and Rollo turned away from the window, and began to listen +again.</p> + +<p>"I have told you now," said she, "of one kind of playthings—those that +give pleasure from their <i>novelty</i> only. There is another kind—those +that give you pleasure by their <i>use</i>;—such as a doll, for example."</p> + +<p>"How, mother? Is a doll of any <i>use</i>?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, in one sense; that is, the girl who has it, <i>uses</i> it continually. +Perhaps she admired the <i>looks</i> of it, the first day it was given to +her; but then, after that, she can <i>use</i> it in so many ways, that it +continues to afford her pleasure for a long time. She can dress and +undress it, put <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">180</a></span>it to bed, make it sit up for company, and do a great +many other things with it. When she gets tired of playing with it one +day, she puts it away, and the next day she thinks of something new to +do with it, which she never thought of before. Now, which should you +think the pleasure you should obtain from a ball, would arise from, its +<i>novelty</i>, or its <i>use</i>?"</p> + +<p>"Its <i>use</i>," said the boys.</p> + +<p>"Yes," said the mother. "The first sight of a ball would not give you +any very special pleasure. Its value would consist in the pleasure you +would take in playing with it.</p> + +<p>"Now, it is generally best to buy such playthings as you can use a great +many times, and in a great many ways; such as a top, a ball, a knife, a +wheelbarrow. But things that please you only by their <i>novelty</i>, will +soon lose all their power to give you pleasure, and be good for nothing +to you. Such, for instance, as jumping men, and witches, and funny +little images. Children are very often deceived in buying their +playthings; for those things which please by their novelty only, usually +please them very much for a few minutes, while they <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">181</a></span>are in the shop, +and see them for the first time; while those things which would last a +long time, do not give them much pleasure at first.</p> + +<p>"There is another kind of playthings I want to tell you about a little, +and then my lecture will be done. I mean playthings which give <i>you</i> +pleasure, but give <i>other persons</i> pain. A drum and a whistle, for +example, are disagreeable to other persons; and children, therefore, +ought not to choose them, unless they have a place to go to, to play +with them, which will be out of hearing. I have known boys to buy masks +to frighten other children with, and bows and arrows, which sometimes +are the means of putting out children's eyes. So you must consider, when +you are choosing playthings, first, whether the pleasure they will give +you will be from the <i>novelty</i> or the <i>use</i>; and, secondly, whether, in +giving <i>you</i> pleasure, they will give <i>any other persons</i> pain.</p> + +<p>"This is the end of the lecture. Now you may rest a little, and look +about, and then I will tell you a short story."</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">182</a></span></p> +<h4><a name="THE_YOUNG_DRIVERS" id="THE_YOUNG_DRIVERS"></a>THE YOUNG DRIVERS.</h4> + + +<p>They came, about this time, to the foot of a long hill, and Jonas said +he believed that he would get out and walk up, and he said James might +drive the horse. So he put the reins into James's hands, and jumped out. +Rollo climbed over the seat, and sat by his side. Presently James saw a +large stone in the road, and he asked Rollo to see how well he could +drive round it; for as the horse was going, he would have carried one +wheel directly over it. So he pulled one of the reins, and turned the +horse away; but he contrived to turn him out just far enough to make the +<i>other</i> wheel go over the stone. Rollo laughed, and asked him to let him +try the next time; and James gave him the reins; but there was no other +stone till they got up to the top of the hill.</p> + +<p>Then James said that Rollo might ride on the front seat now, and when +Jonas got in, he climbed back to the back seat, and took his place by +the side of Rollo's mother.</p> + +<p>"Come, mother," then said Rollo, "we <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">183</a></span>are rested enough now: please to +begin the story."</p> + +<p>"Very well, if you are all ready."</p> + +<p>So she began as follows:—</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h4><a name="THE_STORY_OF_SHALLOW_SELFISH_AND_WISE" id="THE_STORY_OF_SHALLOW_SELFISH_AND_WISE"></a>THE STORY OF SHALLOW, SELFISH, AND WISE.</h4> + + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Once there were three boys going into town to buy some playthings: +their names were Shallow, Selfish, and Wise. Each had half a +dollar. Shallow carried his in his hand, tossing it up in the air, +and catching it, as he went along. Selfish kept teasing his mother +to give him some more money: half a dollar, he said, was not +enough. Wise walked along quietly, with his cash safe in his +pocket.</p> + +<p>Presently Shallow missed catching his half dollar, and—chink—it +went, on the sidewalk, and it rolled along down into a crack under +a building. Then he began to cry. Selfish stood by, holding his own +money tight in his hands, and said he did not pity Shallow at all; +it was good enough for him; he had no business to be tossing it up. +Wise came up, and tried to get the money out with a stick, but he +could not. He told Shallow not to cry; said he was sorry he had +lost his money, and that he would give him half of his, as soon as +they could get it changed at the shop.</p> + +<p>So they walked along to the toy-shop.</p> + +<p>Their mother said that each one might choose his own plaything; so +they began to look around on the counter and shelves.</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">184</a></span></p><div class="blockquot"><p>After a while, Shallow began to laugh very loud and heartily at +something he found. It was an image of a grinning monkey. It looked +very droll indeed. Shallow asked Wise to come and see. Wise laughed +at it too, but said he should not want to buy it, as he thought he +should soon get tired of laughing at any thing, if it was ever so +droll.</p> + +<p>Shallow was sure that he should never get tired of laughing at so +very droll a thing as the grinning monkey; and he decided to buy +it, if Wise would give him half of his money; and so Wise did.</p> + +<p>Selfish found a rattle, a large, noisy rattle, and went to +springing it until they were all tired of hearing the noise.</p> + +<p>"I think I shall buy this," said he. "I can make believe that there +is a fire, and can run about springing my rattle, and crying, +'Fire! Fire!' or I can play that a thief is breaking into a store, +and can rattle my rattle at him, and call out, 'Stop thief!'"</p> + +<p>"But that will disturb all the people in the house," said Wise.</p> + +<p>"What care I for that?" said Selfish.</p> + +<p>Selfish found that the price of his rattle was not so much as the +half dollar; so he laid out the rest of it in cake, and sat down on +a box, and began to eat it.</p> + +<p>Wise passed by all the images and gaudy toys, only good to look at +a few times, and chose a soft ball, and finding that that did not +take all of his half of the money, he purchased a little morocco +box with an inkstand, some wafers, and one or two <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">185</a></span>short pens in +it. Shallow told him that was not a plaything; it was only fit for +a school; and as to his ball, he did not think much of that.</p> + +<p>Wise said he thought they could all play with the ball a great many +times, and he thought, too, that he should like his little inkstand +rainy days and winter evenings.</p> + +<p>So the boys walked along home. Shallow stopped every moment to +laugh at his monkey, and Selfish to spring his rattle; and they +looked with contempt on Wise's ball, which he carried quietly in +one hand, and his box done up in brown paper in the other.</p> + +<p>When they got home, Shallow ran in to show his monkey. The people +smiled a little, but did not take much notice of it; and, in fact, +it did not look half so funny, even to himself, as it did in the +shop. In a short time, it did not make him laugh at all, and then +he was vexed and angry with it. He said he meant to go and throw +the ugly old baboon away; he was tired of seeing that same old grin +on his face all the time. So he went and threw it over the wall.</p> + +<p>Selfish ate his cake up, on his way home. He would not give his +brothers any, for he said they had had their money as well as he. +When he got home, he went about the house, up and down, through +parlor and chamber, kitchen and shed, springing his rattle, and +calling out, "Stop thief! Stop thief!" or "Fire! Fire!" Every body +got tired, and asked him to be still; but he did not <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">186</a></span>mind, until, +at last, his father took his rattle away from him, and put it up on +a high shelf.</p> + +<p>Then Selfish and Shallow went out and found Wise playing +beautifully with his ball in the yard; and he invited them to play +with him. They would toss it up against the wall, and learn to +catch it when it came down; and then they made some bat-sticks, and +knocked it back and forth to one another, about the yard. The more +they played with the ball, the more they liked it, and as Wise was +always very careful not to play near any holes, and to put it away +safe when he, had done with it, he kept it a long time, and gave +them pleasure a great many times all summer long.</p> + +<p>And then his inkstand box was a great treasure. He would get it out +in the long winter evenings, and lend Selfish and Shallow, each, +one of his pens; and they would all sit at the table, and make +pictures, and write little letters, and seal them with small bits +of the wafers. In fact, Wise kept his inkstand box safe till he +grew up to be a man.</p> + +<p>That is the end of the story.</p></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h4><a name="THE_TOY-SHOP" id="THE_TOY-SHOP"></a>THE TOY-SHOP.</h4> + + +<p>"I wish I could get an inkstand box," said Rollo, when the story was +finished.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">187</a></span></p><p>"I think he was very foolish to throw away his grinning monkey," said +James "I wish I could see a grinning monkey."</p> + +<p>They continued talking about this story some time, and at length they +drew nigh to the city. They drove to a stable, where Jonas had the horse +put up, and then they all walked on in search of a toy-shop.</p> + +<p>They passed along through one or two streets, walking very slowly, so +that the boys might look at the pictures and curious things in the shop +windows. At length they came to a toy-shop, and all went in.</p> + +<p>They saw at once a great number and variety of playthings exhibited to +view. All around the floor were arranged horses on wheels, little carts, +wagons, and baskets. The counter had a great variety of images and +figures,—birds that would peep, and dogs that would bark, and drummers +that would drum—all by just turning a little handle. Then the shelves +and the window were filled with all sorts of boxes, and whips, and +puzzles, and tea-sets, and <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">188</a></span>dolls, dressed and not dressed. There were +bows and arrows, and darts, and jumping ropes, and glass dogs, and +little rocking-horses, and a thousand other things.</p> + +<p>When the boys first came in, there was a little girl standing by the +counter with a small slate in her hand. She looked like a poor girl, +though she was neat and tidy in her dress. She was talking with the +shopman about the slate.</p> + +<p>"Don't you think," said she, "you could let me have it for ten cents?"</p> + +<p>"No," said he, "I could not afford it for less than fifteen. It cost me +more than ten."</p> + +<p>The little girl laid the slate down, and looked disappointed and sad. +Rollo's mother came up to her, took up the slate, and said,</p> + +<p>"I should think you had better give him fifteen cents. It is a very good +slate. It is worth as much as that, certainly."</p> + +<p>"Yes, madam, so I tell her," said the shopman.</p> + +<p>"But I have not got but ten cents," said the little girl.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">189</a></span></p><p>"Have not you?" said Rollo's mother. She stood still thinking a moment, +and then she asked the little girl what her name was.</p> + +<p>She said it was Maria.</p> + +<p>She asked her what she wanted the slate for; and Maria said it was to do +sums on, at school. She wanted to study arithmetic, and could not do so +without a slate.</p> + +<p>Jonas then came forward, and said that he should like to give her five +cents of Georgie's money, and that, with the ten she had, would be +enough. He said that Georgie had given him authority to do what he +thought best with his money, and he knew, if Georgie was here, he would +wish to help the little girl.</p> + +<p>Rollo and James were both sorry they had not thought of it themselves; +and, as soon as Jonas mentioned it, they wanted to give some of their +money to the girl; but Jonas said he knew that Georgie would prefer to +do it. At last, however, it was agreed that Rollo and James should +furnish one cent each, and Georgie the rest. This was all agreed upon +after a low <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">190</a></span>conversation by themselves in a corner of the store; and +then Jonas came forward, and told the shopman that they were going to +pay the additional five cents, and that he might let the girl have the +slate. So Jonas paid the money, and it was agreed that Rollo and James +should pay him back their share, when they got their money changed. The +boys were very much pleased to see the little girl go away so happy with +her slate in her hand. It was neatly done up in paper, with two pencils +which the shopman gave her, done up inside.</p> + +<p>After Maria was gone, the boys looked around the shop, but could not +find any thing which exactly pleased them; or at least they could not +find any thing which pleased them so much more than any thing else, that +they could decide in favor of it. So they concluded to walk along, and +look at another shop.</p> + +<p>They succeeded at last in finding some playthings that they liked, and +Jonas bought a variety of useful things for Georgie. On their way home, +the carryall stopped at the house where Lucy lived, <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">191</a></span>and Rollo's mother +left him and James there, to show Lucy their playthings.</p> + +<p>One of the things they bought was a little boat with two sails, and they +went down behind the house to sail it. The other playthings and books +they carried down too, and had a fine time playing with them, with Lucy +and another little girl who was visiting her that afternoon.</p> + +<p><br /><br /></p> + +<p class="notes"> +Transcriber's Notes:<br /> +Left one instance of wind-mills and one of windmills<br /> +</p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Georgie, by Jacob Abbott + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GEORGIE *** + +***** This file should be named 19256-h.htm or 19256-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/2/5/19256/ + +Produced by Barbara Tozier, Joseph R. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Georgie + +Author: Jacob Abbott + +Release Date: September 12, 2006 [EBook #19256] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GEORGIE *** + + + + +Produced by Barbara Tozier, Joseph R. Hauser, Bill Tozier +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + +[Illustration: THE BRIDGE] + + + + +THE + +ROLLO STORY BOOKS + +BY + +JACOB ABBOTT + +GEORGIE. + +Boston: +PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & COMPANY, +PUBLISHERS. + + + + +Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by +PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO., +In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. + + + +CONTENTS. + +GEORGIE. + +THE LITTLE LANDING. + +GEORGIE'S MONEY. + +TWO GOOD FRIENDS. + +A LECTURE ON PLAYTHINGS. + +THE YOUNG DRIVERS. + +THE STORY OF SHALLOW, SELFISH, AND WISE. + + + +GEORGIE. + + + + +THE LITTLE LANDING. + + +A short distance from where Rollo lives, there is a small, but very +pleasant house, just under the hill, where you go down to the stone +bridge leading over the brook. There is a noble large apple tree on one +side of the house, which bears a beautiful, sweet, and mellow kind of +apple, called golden pippins. A great many other trees and flowers are +around the house, and in the little garden on the side of it towards the +brook. There is a small white gate that leads to the house, from the +road; and there is a pleasant path leading right out from the front +door, through the garden, down to the water. This is the house that +Georgie lives in. + +One evening, just before sunset, Rollo was coming along over the stone +bridge, towards home. He stopped a moment to look over the railing, +down into the water Presently he heard a very sweet-toned voice calling +out to him, + +"Rol-lo." + +Rollo looked along in the direction in which the sound came. It was from +the bank of the stream, a little way from the road, at the place where +the path from Georgie's house came down to the water. The brook was +broad, and the water pretty smooth and still here; and it was a place +where Rollo had often been to sail boats with Georgie. There was a +little smooth, sandy place on the shore, at the foot of the path, and +they used to call it Georgie's landing; and there was a seat close by, +under the bushes. + +Rollo thought it was Georgie's voice that called him, and in a minute, +he saw him sitting on his little seat, with his crutches by his side. +Georgie was a sick boy. He could not walk, but had to sit almost all +day, at home, in a large easy chair, which his father had bought for +him. In the winter, his chair was established in a particular corner, by +the side of the fire, and he had a little case of shelves and drawers, +painted green, by the side of him. In these shelves and drawers he had +his books and playthings,--his pen and ink,--his paint-box, brushes and +pencils,--his knife, and a little saw,--and a great many things which he +used to make for his amusement. Then, in the summer, his chair, and his +shelves and drawers, were moved to the end window, which looked out upon +the garden and brook. Sometimes, when he was better than usual, he could +move about a little upon crutches; and, at such times, when it was +pleasant, he used to go out into the garden, and down, through it, to +his landing, at the brook. + +Georgie had been sick a great many years, and when Rollo and Jonas first +knew him, he used to be very sad and unhappy. It was because the poor +little fellow had nothing to do. His father had to work pretty hard to +get food and clothing for his family; he loved little Georgie very much, +but he could not buy him many things. Sometimes people who visited him, +used to give him playthings, and they would amuse him a little while, +but he soon grew tired of them, and had them put away. It is very hard +for any body to be happy who has not any thing to do. + +It was Jonas that taught Georgie what to do. He lent him his knife, and +brought him some smooth, soft, pine wood, and taught him to make +wind-mills and little boxes. Georgie liked this very much, and used to +sit by his window in the summer mornings, and make playthings, hours at +a time. After he had made several things, Jonas told the boys that lived +about there, that they had better buy them of him, when they had a few +cents to spend for toys; and they did. In fact, they liked the little +windmills, and wagons, and small framed houses that Georgie made, better +than sugar-plums and candy. Besides, they liked to go and see Georgie; +for, whenever they went to buy any thing of him, he looked so contented +and happy, sitting in his easy chair, with his small and slender feet +drawn up under him, and his work on the table by his side. + +Then he was a very beautiful boy too. His face was delicate and pale, +but there was such a kind and gentle expression in his mild blue eye, +and so much sweetness in the tone of his voice, that they loved very +much to go and see him. In fact, all the boys were very fond of Georgie. + + + + +GEORGIE'S MONEY. + + +Georgie, at length, earned, in this way, quite a little sum of money. It +was nearly all in cents; but then there was one fourpence which a lady +gave him for a four-wheeled wagon that he made. He kept this money in a +corner of his drawer, and, at last, there was quite a handful of it. + +One summer evening, when Georgie's father came home from his work, he +hung up his hat, and came and sat down in Georgie's corner, by the side +of his little boy. Georgie looked up to him with a smile. + +"Well, father," said he, "are you tired to-night?" + +"You are the one to be tired, Georgie," said he, "sitting here alone all +day." + +"Hold up your hand, father," said Georgie, reaching out his own at the +same time, which was shut up, and appeared to have something in it. + +"Why, what have you got for me?" said his father. + +"Hold fast all I give you," replied he; and he dropped the money all +into his father's hand, and shut up his father's fingers over it. + +"What is all this?" said his father. + +"It is my money," said he, "for you. It is 'most all cents, but then +there is _one_ fourpence." + +"I am sure, I am much obliged to you, Georgie, for this." + +"O no," said Georgie, "it's only a _little_ of what you have to spend +for me." + +Georgie's father took the money, and put it in his pocket, and the next +day he went to Jonas, and told him about it, and asked Jonas to spend it +in buying such things as he thought would be useful to Georgie; either +playthings, or tools, or materials to work with. + +Jonas said he should be very glad to do it, for he thought he could buy +him some things that would help him very much in his work. Jonas carried +the money into the city the next time he went, and bought him a small +hone to sharpen his knife, a fine-toothed saw, and a bottle of black +varnish, with a little brush, to put it on with. He brought these +things home, and gave them to Georgie's father; and he carried them into +the house, and put them in a drawer. + +That evening, when Georgie was at supper, his father slyly put the +things that Jonas had bought on his table, so that when he went back, +after supper, he found them there. He was very much surprised and +pleased. He examined them all very particularly, and was especially glad +to have the black varnish, for now he could varnish his work, and make +it look much more handsome. The little boxes that he made, after this, +of a bright black outside, and lined neatly with paper within, were +thought by the boys to be elegant. + +He could now earn money faster, and, as his father insisted on having +all his earnings expended for articles for Georgie's own use, and Jonas +used to help him about expending it, he got, at last, quite a variety of +implements and articles. He had some wire, and a little pair of pliers +for bending it in all shapes, and a hammer and little nails. He had also +a paint-box and brushes, and paper of various colors, for lining boxes, +and making portfolios and pocket-books; and he had varnishes, red, +green, blue, and black. All these he kept in his drawers and shelves, +and made a great many ingenious things with them. + +So Georgie was a great friend of both Rollo and Jonas, and they often +used to come and see him, and play with him; and that was the reason +that Rollo knew his voice so well, when he called to him from the +landing, when Rollo was standing on the bridge, as described in the +beginning of this story. + + + + +TWO GOOD FRIENDS. + + +Rollo ran along to the end of the bridge, clambered down to the water's +edge, went along the shore among the trees and shrubbery, until he came +to the seat where Georgie was sitting. Georgie asked him to sit down, +and stay with him; but Rollo said he must go directly home; and so +Georgie took his crutches, and they began to walk slowly together up the +garden walk. + +"Where have you been, Rollo?" said Georgie. + +"I have been to see my cousin James, to ask him to go to the city with +us to-morrow." + +"Are you going to the city?" + +"Yes; uncle George gave James and I a half a dollar apiece, the other +day; and mother is going to carry us into the city to-morrow to buy +something with it." + +"Is Jonas going with you?" + +"Yes," said Rollo. "He is going to drive. We are going in our carryall." + +"I wish you would take some money for me, then, and get Jonas to buy me +something with it." + +"Well, I will," said Rollo. "What shall he buy for you?" + +"O, he may buy any thing he chooses." + +"Yes, but if you do not tell him what to buy, he may buy something you +have got already." + +"O, Jonas knows every thing I have got as well as I do." + +Just then they came up near the house, and Georgie asked Rollo to look +up at the golden pippin tree, and see how full it was. + +"That is my branch," said he. + +He pointed to a large branch which came out on one side, and which hung +down loaded with fruit. It would have broken down, perhaps, if there had +not been a crotched pole put under it, to prop it up. + +"But all the apples on your branch are not golden pippins," said Rollo. +"There are some on it that are red. What beautiful red apples!" + +"Yes," said Georgie. "Father grafted that for me, to make it bear +rosy-boys. I call the red ones my rosy-boys." + +"Grafted?" said Rollo; "how did he graft it?" + +"O," said Georgie, "I do not know exactly. He cut off a little branch +from a rosy-boy tree, and stuck it on somehow, and it grew, and bears +rosy-boys still." + +Rollo thought this was very curious; Georgie told him he would give him +an apple, and that he might have his choice--a pippin or a rosy-boy. + +Rollo hesitated, and looked at them, first at one, and then at another; +but he could not decide. The rosy-boys had the brightest and most +beautiful color, but then the pippins looked so rich and mellow, that he +could not choose very easily; and so Georgie laughed, and told him he +would settle the difficulty by giving him one of each. + +"So come here," said he, "Rollo, and let me lean on you, while I knock +them down." + +So Rollo came and stood near him, while Georgie leaned on him, and with +his crutch gave a gentle tap to one of each of his kinds of apples, and +they fell down upon the soft grass, safe and sound. + +[Illustration] + +They then went into the house, and Georgie gave Rollo his money, wrapped +up in a small piece of paper; and then Rollo, bidding him good by, went +out of the little white gate, and walked along home. + +The next morning, soon after breakfast, Jonas drove the carryall up to +the front door, and Rollo and his mother walked out to it. Rollo's +mother took the back seat, and Rollo and Jonas sat in front, and they +drove along. + +They called at the house where James lived, and found him waiting for +them on the front steps, with his half dollar in his hand. + +He ran into the house to tell his mother that the carryall had come, and +to bid her good morning, and then he came out to the gate. + +"James," said Rollo, "you may sit on the front seat with Jonas, if you +want to." + +James said he should like to very much; and so Rollo stepped over +behind, and sat with his mother. This was kind and polite; for boys all +like the front seat when they are riding, and Rollo therefore did right +to offer it to his cousin. + + + + +A LECTURE ON PLAYTHINGS. + + +After a short time, they came to a smooth and pleasant road, with trees +and farmhouses on each side; and as the horse was trotting along +quietly, Rollo asked his mother if she could not tell them a story. + +"I cannot tell you a story very well, this morning, but I can give you a +lecture on playthings, if you wish." + +"Very well, mother, we should like that," said the boys. + +They did not know very well what a lecture was, but they thought that +any thing which their mother would propose would be interesting. + +"Do you know what a lecture is?" said she. + +"Not exactly," said Rollo. + +"Why, I should explain to you about playthings,--the various kinds, +their use, the way to keep them, and to derive the most pleasure from +them, &c. Giving you this information will not be as _interesting_ to +you as to hear a story; but it will be more _useful_, if you attend +carefully, and endeavor to remember what I say." + +The boys thought they should like the lecture, and promised to attend. +Rollo said he would remember it all; and so his mother began. + +"The value of a plaything does not consist in itself, but in the +pleasure it awakens in your mind. Do you understand that?" + +"Not very well," said Rollo. + +"If you should give a round stick to a baby on the floor, and let him +strike the floor with it, he would be pleased. You would see by his +looks that it gave him great pleasure. Now, where would this pleasure +be,--in the stick, or in the floor, or in the baby?" + +"Why, in the baby," said Rollo, laughing. + +"Yes; and would it be in his body, or in his mind?" + +"In his face," said James. + +"In his eyes," said Rollo. + +"You would see the _signs of it_ in his face and in his eyes, but the +feeling of pleasure would be in his mind. Now, I suppose you understand +what I said, that the value of the plaything consists in the pleasure it +can awaken in the mind." + +"Yes, mother," said Rollo. + +"There is your jumping man," said she; "is that a good plaything?" + +"Yes," said Rollo, "my _kicker_. But I don't care much about it. I don't +know where it is now." + +"What was it?" said James. "_I_ never saw it." + +"It was a pasteboard man," said his mother; "and there was a string +behind, fixed so that, by pulling it, you could make his arms and legs +fly about." + +"Yes," said Rollo, "I called him my _kicker_." + +"You liked it very much, when you first had it." + +"Yes," said Rollo, "but I don't think it is very pretty now." + +"That shows what I said was true. When you first had it, it was new, and +the sight of it gave you pleasure; but the pleasure consisted in the +novelty and drollery of it, and after a little while, when you became +familiar with it, it ceased to give you pleasure, and then you did not +value it. I found it the other day lying on the ground in the yard, and +took it up and put it away carefully in a drawer." + +"But if the value is all gone, what good does it do to save it?" said +Rollo. + +"The value to _you_ is gone, because you have become familiar with it, +and so it has lost its power to awaken feelings of pleasure in you. But +it has still power to give pleasure to other children, who have not seen +it, and I kept it for them." + +"I should like to see it, very much," said James. "I never saw such a +one." + +"I will show it to you some time. Now, this is one kind of +plaything,--those which please by their _novelty_ only. It is not +generally best to buy such playthings, for you very soon get familiar +with them, and then they cease to give you pleasure, and are almost +worthless." + +"Only we ought to keep them, if we have them, to show to other boys," +said Rollo. + +"Yes," said his mother. "You ought never to throw them away, or leave +them on the floor, or on the ground." + +"O, the little fool," said Rollo suddenly. + +His mother and James looked up, wondering what Rollo meant. He was +looking out at the side of the carryall, at something about the wheel. + +"What is it," said his mother. + +"Why, here is a large fly trying to light on the wheel, and every time +his legs touch it, it knocks them away. See! See!" + +"Yes, but you must not attend to him now. You must listen to my lecture. +You promised to give your attention to me." + +So James and Rollo turned away from the window, and began to listen +again. + +"I have told you now," said she, "of one kind of playthings--those that +give pleasure from their _novelty_ only. There is another kind--those +that give you pleasure by their _use_;--such as a doll, for example." + +"How, mother? Is a doll of any _use_?" + +"Yes, in one sense; that is, the girl who has it, _uses_ it continually. +Perhaps she admired the _looks_ of it, the first day it was given to +her; but then, after that, she can _use_ it in so many ways, that it +continues to afford her pleasure for a long time. She can dress and +undress it, put it to bed, make it sit up for company, and do a great +many other things with it. When she gets tired of playing with it one +day, she puts it away, and the next day she thinks of something new to +do with it, which she never thought of before. Now, which should you +think the pleasure you should obtain from a ball, would arise from, its +_novelty_, or its _use_?" + +"Its _use_," said the boys. + +"Yes," said the mother. "The first sight of a ball would not give you +any very special pleasure. Its value would consist in the pleasure you +would take in playing with it. + +"Now, it is generally best to buy such playthings as you can use a great +many times, and in a great many ways; such as a top, a ball, a knife, a +wheelbarrow. But things that please you only by their _novelty_, will +soon lose all their power to give you pleasure, and be good for nothing +to you. Such, for instance, as jumping men, and witches, and funny +little images. Children are very often deceived in buying their +playthings; for those things which please by their novelty only, usually +please them very much for a few minutes, while they are in the shop, +and see them for the first time; while those things which would last a +long time, do not give them much pleasure at first. + +"There is another kind of playthings I want to tell you about a little, +and then my lecture will be done. I mean playthings which give _you_ +pleasure, but give _other persons_ pain. A drum and a whistle, for +example, are disagreeable to other persons; and children, therefore, +ought not to choose them, unless they have a place to go to, to play +with them, which will be out of hearing. I have known boys to buy masks +to frighten other children with, and bows and arrows, which sometimes +are the means of putting out children's eyes. So you must consider, when +you are choosing playthings, first, whether the pleasure they will give +you will be from the _novelty_ or the _use_; and, secondly, whether, in +giving _you_ pleasure, they will give _any other persons_ pain. + +"This is the end of the lecture. Now you may rest a little, and look +about, and then I will tell you a short story." + + + + +THE YOUNG DRIVERS. + + +They came, about this time, to the foot of a long hill, and Jonas said +he believed that he would get out and walk up, and he said James might +drive the horse. So he put the reins into James's hands, and jumped out. +Rollo climbed over the seat, and sat by his side. Presently James saw a +large stone in the road, and he asked Rollo to see how well he could +drive round it; for as the horse was going, he would have carried one +wheel directly over it. So he pulled one of the reins, and turned the +horse away; but he contrived to turn him out just far enough to make the +_other_ wheel go over the stone. Rollo laughed, and asked him to let him +try the next time; and James gave him the reins; but there was no other +stone till they got up to the top of the hill. + +Then James said that Rollo might ride on the front seat now, and when +Jonas got in, he climbed back to the back seat, and took his place by +the side of Rollo's mother. + +"Come, mother," then said Rollo, "we are rested enough now: please to +begin the story." + +"Very well, if you are all ready." + +So she began as follows:-- + + + + +THE STORY Of SHALLOW, SELFISH, AND WISE. + + + Once there were three boys going into town to buy some playthings: + their names were Shallow, Selfish, and Wise. Each had half a + dollar. Shallow carried his in his hand, tossing it up in the air, + and catching it, as he went along. Selfish kept teasing his mother + to give him some more money: half a dollar, he said, was not + enough. Wise walked along quietly, with his cash safe in his + pocket. + + Presently Shallow missed catching his half dollar, and--chink--it + went, on the sidewalk, and it rolled along down into a crack under + a building. Then he began to cry. Selfish stood by, holding his own + money tight in his hands, and said he did not pity Shallow at all; + it was good enough for him; he had no business to be tossing it up. + Wise came up, and tried to get the money out with a stick, but he + could not. He told Shallow not to cry; said he was sorry he had + lost his money, and that he would give him half of his, as soon as + they could get it changed at the shop. + + So they walked along to the toy-shop. + + Their mother said that each one might choose his own plaything; so + they began to look around on the counter and shelves. + + After a while, Shallow began to laugh very loud and heartily at + something he found. It was an image of a grinning monkey. It looked + very droll indeed. Shallow asked Wise to come and see. Wise laughed + at it too, but said he should not want to buy it, as he thought he + should soon get tired of laughing at any thing, if it was ever so + droll. + + Shallow was sure that he should never get tired of laughing at so + very droll a thing as the grinning monkey; and he decided to buy + it, if Wise would give him half of his money; and so Wise did. + + Selfish found a rattle, a large, noisy rattle, and went to + springing it until they were all tired of hearing the noise. + + "I think I shall buy this," said he. "I can make believe that there + is a fire, and can run about springing my rattle, and crying, + 'Fire! Fire!' or I can play that a thief is breaking into a store, + and can rattle my rattle at him, and call out, 'Stop thief!'" + + "But that will disturb all the people in the house," said Wise. + + "What care I for that?" said Selfish. + + Selfish found that the price of his rattle was not so much as the + half dollar; so he laid out the rest of it in cake, and sat down on + a box, and began to eat it. + + Wise passed by all the images and gaudy toys, only good to look at + a few times, and chose a soft ball, and finding that that did not + take all of his half of the money, he purchased a little morocco + box with an inkstand, some wafers, and one or two short pens in + it. Shallow told him that was not a plaything; it was only fit for + a school; and as to his ball, he did not think much of that. + + Wise said he thought they could all play with the ball a great many + times, and he thought, too, that he should like his little inkstand + rainy days and winter evenings. + + So the boys walked along home. Shallow stopped every moment to + laugh at his monkey, and Selfish to spring his rattle; and they + looked with contempt on Wise's ball, which he carried quietly in + one hand, and his box done up in brown paper in the other. + + When they got home, Shallow ran in to show his monkey. The people + smiled a little, but did not take much notice of it; and, in fact, + it did not look half so funny, even to himself, as it did in the + shop. In a short time, it did not make him laugh at all, and then + he was vexed and angry with it. He said he meant to go and throw + the ugly old baboon away; he was tired of seeing that same old grin + on his face all the time. So he went and threw it over the wall. + + Selfish ate his cake up, on his way home. He would not give his + brothers any, for he said they had had their money as well as he. + When he got home, he went about the house, up and down, through + parlor and chamber, kitchen and shed, springing his rattle, and + calling out, "Stop thief! Stop thief!" or "Fire! Fire!" Every body + got tired, and asked him to be still; but he did not mind, until, + at last, his father took his rattle away from him, and put it up on + a high shelf. + + Then Selfish and Shallow went out and found Wise playing + beautifully with his ball in the yard; and he invited them to play + with him. They would toss it up against the wall, and learn to + catch it when it came down; and then they made some bat-sticks, and + knocked it back and forth to one another, about the yard. The more + they played with the ball, the more they liked it, and as Wise was + always very careful not to play near any holes, and to put it away + safe when he, had done with it, he kept it a long time, and gave + them pleasure a great many times all summer long. + + And then his inkstand box was a great treasure. He would get it out + in the long winter evenings, and lend Selfish and Shallow, each, + one of his pens; and they would all sit at the table, and make + pictures, and write little letters, and seal them with small bits + of the wafers. In fact, Wise kept his inkstand box safe till he + grew up to be a man. + + That is the end of the story. + + + + +THE TOY-SHOP. + + +"I wish I could get an inkstand box," said Rollo, when the story was +finished. + +"I think he was very foolish to throw away his grinning monkey," said +James "I wish I could see a grinning monkey." + +They continued talking about this story some time, and at length they +drew nigh to the city. They drove to a stable, where Jonas had the horse +put up, and then they all walked on in search of a toy-shop. + +They passed along through one or two streets, walking very slowly, so +that the boys might look at the pictures and curious things in the shop +windows. At length they came to a toy-shop, and all went in. + +They saw at once a great number and variety of playthings exhibited to +view. All around the floor were arranged horses on wheels, little carts, +wagons, and baskets. The counter had a great variety of images and +figures,--birds that would peep, and dogs that would bark, and drummers +that would drum--all by just turning a little handle. Then the shelves +and the window were filled with all sorts of boxes, and whips, and +puzzles, and tea-sets, and dolls, dressed and not dressed. There were +bows and arrows, and darts, and jumping ropes, and glass dogs, and +little rocking-horses, and a thousand other things. + +When the boys first came in, there was a little girl standing by the +counter with a small slate in her hand. She looked like a poor girl, +though she was neat and tidy in her dress. She was talking with the +shopman about the slate. + +"Don't you think," said she, "you could let me have it for ten cents?" + +"No," said he, "I could not afford it for less than fifteen. It cost me +more than ten." + +The little girl laid the slate down, and looked disappointed and sad. +Rollo's mother came up to her, took up the slate, and said, + +"I should think you had better give him fifteen cents. It is a very good +slate. It is worth as much as that, certainly." + +"Yes, madam, so I tell her," said the shopman. + +"But I have not got but ten cents," said the little girl. + +"Have not you?" said Rollo's mother. She stood still thinking a moment, +and then she asked the little girl what her name was. + +She said it was Maria. + +She asked her what she wanted the slate for; and Maria said it was to do +sums on, at school. She wanted to study arithmetic, and could not do so +without a slate. + +Jonas then came forward, and said that he should like to give her five +cents of Georgie's money, and that, with the ten she had, would be +enough. He said that Georgie had given him authority to do what he +thought best with his money, and he knew, if Georgie was here, he would +wish to help the little girl. + +Rollo and James were both sorry they had not thought of it themselves; +and, as soon as Jonas mentioned it, they wanted to give some of their +money to the girl; but Jonas said he knew that Georgie would prefer to +do it. At last, however, it was agreed that Rollo and James should +furnish one cent each, and Georgie the rest. This was all agreed upon +after a low conversation by themselves in a corner of the store; and +then Jonas came forward, and told the shopman that they were going to +pay the additional five cents, and that he might let the girl have the +slate. So Jonas paid the money, and it was agreed that Rollo and James +should pay him back their share, when they got their money changed. The +boys were very much pleased to see the little girl go away so happy with +her slate in her hand. It was neatly done up in paper, with two pencils +which the shopman gave her, done up inside. + +After Maria was gone, the boys looked around the shop, but could not +find any thing which exactly pleased them; or at least they could not +find any thing which pleased them so much more than any thing else, that +they could decide in favor of it. So they concluded to walk along, and +look at another shop. + +They succeeded at last in finding some playthings that they liked, and +Jonas bought a variety of useful things for Georgie. On their way home, +the carryall stopped at the house where Lucy lived, and Rollo's mother +left him and James there, to show Lucy their playthings. + +One of the things they bought was a little boat with two sails, and they +went down behind the house to sail it. The other playthings and books +they carried down too, and had a fine time playing with them, with Lucy +and another little girl who was visiting her that afternoon. + + + +Transcriber's Notes: +Left one instance of wind-mills and one of windmills + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Georgie, by Jacob Abbott + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GEORGIE *** + +***** This file should be named 19256.txt or 19256.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/2/5/19256/ + +Produced by Barbara Tozier, Joseph R. 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