THE BRIDGE
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.
| THE LITTLE LANDING. |
| GEORGIE'S MONEY. |
| TWO GOOD FRIENDS. |
| A LECTURE ON PLAYTHINGS. |
| THE YOUNG DRIVERS. |
| THE STORY OF SHALLOW, SELFISH, AND WISE. |
| THE TOY-SHOP. |
GEORGIE.
THE LITTLE LANDING.
A short distance from where Rollo lives, there is a small, but verypleasant house, just under the hill, where you go down to the stonebridge leading over the brook. There is a noble large apple tree on oneside of the house, which bears a beautiful, sweet, and mellow kind ofapple, called golden pippins. A great many other trees and flowers arearound the house, and in the little garden on the side of it towards thebrook. There is a small white gate that leads to the house, from theroad; and there is a pleasant path leading right out from the frontdoor, through the garden, down to the water. This is the house thatGeorgie lives in.
One evening, just before sunset, Rollo was coming along over the stonebridge, towards home. He stopped a moment to 164look over the railing,down into the water Presently he heard a very sweet-toned voice callingout to him,
"Rol-lo."
Rollo looked along in the direction in which the sound came. It was fromthe bank of the stream, a little way from the road, at the place wherethe path from Georgie's house came down to the water. The brook wasbroad, and the water pretty smooth and still here; and it was a placewhere Rollo had often been to sail boats with Georgie. There was alittle smooth, sandy place on the shore, at the foot of the path, andthey 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 allday, at home, in a large easy chair, which his father had bought forhim. In the winter, his chair was established in a particular corner, bythe side of the fire, 165and he had a little