- franconia Stories Author:Jacob Abbott Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Mullevillo is drawn on a he could perhaps make use of it for some purpose or other. He brought it out now and put it down upon the snow, telling Malleville th... more »at that was her drag. He then helped Malleville to seat herself upon it. The waiter was large, so that there was plenty of room for her to sit MALLEVILLE DRAWN BY A BEAR. Beechnut next went and got a strap from among the harnesses, and fastened it to the handle of the waiter He then wrapped himself up again in his bear skin, got down upon all-fours, took hold of the end of the strap, and began Tho wood-pile. The smooth beech log. dragging Malleville along over the snow, growling all the time like a bear. The side of the wood-pile which had been toward Malleville was covered with snow, but the other side was warm and sunny. Beechnut took her around to the sunny side, drew her over the chips to a pleasant corner, where she could lean against a smooth log, and then, throwing the black bearskin upon the wood-pile, returned to his work. Malleville laid her arm upon the log against which Beechnut had placed her. " Oh, what a smooth tree!" said she. It was a beech log, and the bark of the beech is very smooth. " Beechnut," said she, " I wish you would make me a seat with the bearskin." "Certainly I will, if you will tell me a stoiy afterward." " Oh, I can not tell a story," said Malleville. " Ah, yes," said Beechnut; "just a little story ' io amuse me at my work." While saying this, Beechnut was beginning to make Malleville's seat. He put a little board down near the end of the beech log, supporting t upon two sticks, so as to make a little bench. He then spread the bearskin over the seat and Beechnut makes Mallcville a Beat. log, in such a manner as to make a sort of cushi...« less