The Juno 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: 17 CHAPTER IIL TAKING A SET. would be very surprising to see how easily and on what trifling occasions children get into quarrels, and that too about th... more »ings which in their reasonable moments they care very little about, were it not that so many grown people so often act in the same senseless manner. One would not suppose from the very good- natured and friendly manner in which the boys worked together in making their lines, that they could possibly get into a quarrel about a pole, to be cut in the bushes, especially when there were fifty other poles equally good growing all around. But they did. The case was this. They reached the bank of the brook, after walking about half a mile, and then followed the brook for about a fourth of a mile farther, along a path which sometimes led through groves and copses of trees, and sometimes through grassy fields. They intended to go on until they came to a piece of low land, which inthe spring of the year was swampy and wet, but which in midsummer was dry, and where the trees and bushes were inclined to grow tall and slender. Georgie thought that they would be likely to find here, among the stems of the bushes, some that would be long, straight, and slim enough to serve for fishing poles. On arriving at the spot they at once began to look about for poles, and( Georgie's eyes soon fell upon one which he thought would do nicely. It was a long and slender stem with a length of eight or ten feet free from branches; and as.it presented itself to Georgie's view, as he approached it on one side, it seemed quite straight. He called Hubert to come and see it. Hubert said he thought it would make a very good pole. ' It looks straight,' said he, ' from here, but we must look at it from another side.' So saying, he forced his way t...« less