The Rollo Books - v. 1 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: 18 LITTLE ALBERT. Did you ever catch a butterfly? Did you ever see a butterfly ? He goes flying and fluttering from one flower to another, very happy, unle... more »ss some boys are chasing him. But here is a picture of little Albert and a butterfly. Do you see little Albert there in the picture? I will tell you about him. I will tell what he says. his mother. He is talking to "Mother! mother, come quick! come and see this beautiful large butterfly! come quick, mother! " "Where is the butterfly?" says his mother. "Oh, here he is; he is flying away! come and help me catch him. Come quick, or he will be gone." But his mother will not come. She sits still. She turns her head round so as to see the little butterfly, but she does not want to go and catch the poor little butterfly. It would break his beautiful wings, and hurt him very much, to catch him in little Albert's cap. There he goes flying away. He is happy flying about among the flowers. God made the beautiful butterfly, and we must not hurt him. Don't you seethe beautiful roses growing on the bushes by the side of Albert? Now we will read about another picture. THE BOW AND ARROW Do you not see that little girl in the next picture, lying down, and her brother holding her head? I will tell you what they are doing: but first I must tell you a story. It is about dangerous things. Once a little boy came to my desk and took off a sharp penknife, and I told him to put it down, because it was a dangerous thing. He did not put it down quick, as he ought to have done, but stopped to ask me what was a dangerous thing. It was right to ask me that, but he ought not to have asked it until he had put the knife down. In a minute I heard him cry very loud. I went to see what was the matter. He had cut his finger...« less