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JONAS
ON A FARM
in
WINTER
BY JACOB ABBOTT
Author of the Rollo Books
MDCCCLI
PREFACE
This little work, with its companion, Jonas On A Farm In Summer, isintended as the continuation of a series, the first two volumes ofwhich, Jonas's Stories and Jonas A Judge, have already been published.They are all designed, not merely to interest and amuse the juvenilereader, but to give him instruction, by exemplifying the principles ofhonest integrity, and plain practical good sense, in their applicationto the ordinary circumstances of childhood.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER II.
COMMANDING AND OBEYING
CHAPTER VIII.
THE CARDING-MILL
CHAPTER XI.
THE SNOW FORT, OR GOOD FOR EVIL
CHAPTER I.
MORNING
Early one winter morning, while Jonas was living upon the farm, in theemployment of Oliver's father, he came groping down, just beforedaylight, into the great room.
The great room was, as its name indicated, quite large, occupying aconsiderable portion of the lower floor of the farmer's house. There wasa very spacious fireplace in one side, with a settle, which was a longseat, with a very high back, near it. The room was used both for kitchenand parlor, and there was a great variety of furniture in differentparts o