Jonas on a Farm in Winter

ies to make a boy good at business. He must be gentlemanly in his manners, so as to speak to the persons that he is sent to, in a resp

circumstances that are unforeseen, and where he must act without instructions. In such cases, he will have to exercise his own judgment

l is carded very fine, and then, by curious machinery, it is rolled out into rolls about three feet long, and as

ut it was upon another stream, which emptied into the pond, instead of flowing from it. It was the same stream that flowed by the land which Jonas and Oliver had cleared when he first c

he woods, about two miles beyond the mill. Oliver wanted to go too, and his father gave him leave.

ttom of the sleigh. Jonas himself sat upon the seat, with his feet under th

drifts were very high in some places on each side of t

iver. "I think that he would like to

said

, "perhaps it would be

said

pose he would touch the machinery,

o get very badly hurt in mills,-care

t boy," said Oliver. "Yes, but it is his misf

tune?" repe

that it is very unfortunate for him. I expect he i

said

d Jonas, "he lives, I'm told,

said

unt, I have heard, is a very fine wo

" said

"they can buy Josey any thi

e had got a rocking-horse. But I

en industrious himself, when he was a boy, and has grown up to be a good business man, and to acquire a great deal of property, and build

oil his childre

often conceited. They wear better clothes than some other boys, and have more books and prettier playthings; and

f industry. Their fathers don't make them work, and so they don'

so much money," said Oliver,

y doubtful,"

doubtful?"

ld be a great deal more trouble to make your boys do any thing, than it would be

ers are very busy, and yet

y can keep them at work without any special trouble. But men of property are employed in such kind of business as b

some farmer, and let him m

as, "that would

he foot of a long, steep hill in the woods. He was going to walk up. Oliver remained in

of, and that is, that rich men's sons will not have to work when

hey will,"

he didn't expect to work

e'll find that it is different from w

said

t to be twenty-one, that they have to go out into the

"won't their fathers

s, if they were to divide their property at once among all their children, it would only be a small portion for each one. It wouldn't be enough for the boys to live as expensively as they

not that about this time they arrived at the mill. Oliver tied the horse at a post, while

hear each other talk. Jonas put down the bundle of wool by the door, and then he and Oliver went in among the wheels and machinery. There were a great many separate machines at different parts of the room, with girls tendin

hear what it was. Jonas pointed, while he was talking to the man, to the great bundle of wool. Presently the man came and too

the wheels and other large rollers of the machine itself. The other was back from it a little; and the

set the machinery a-going. The cloth, with all the wool upon it, began to move towards the great rollers of the machine. These rollers were covered with card teeth, and the wool, as it was drawn in between them, was carded fine, and spread evenly over all the surface; and in a few minutes Jonas

g away farther, and shall come back here in about an hour. Yo

Oliver, "I'

onas; "I shall be back

to look out at it. He saw the dam and the waterfall below. There was a large pond above the fall, which was made by the dam. The pond was frozen over, and the ice was covered with s

then he concluded that it would

ty much all of the machinery, and I shal

would run down, quick, a

not at the post. He ran around the corner, and saw Jonas at some distance

hill, and so he heard Oliver calling; for the bells did not ma

overtook him; and they went on