Rollo in London 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: Hollo's wish The ragge d schools. Their origin. " What is that ? " asked Mr. George. " One of the ragged schools," said Rollo. " What are they ? " asked... more » Mr. George. " Why, they are schools for poor boys/' THE FIRST KAQOED SCHOOL plied Rollo. " I believe the boys that go to the schools are pretty much all ragged. These schools were begun by a cobbler. I read about it in a book. The cobbler used to call the ragged boys Mr. George and Bollo emlprk upon the Westminster hoat. in that lived about his shop, and teach them. Afterwards other people established such schools ; and now there are a great many of them, and some of them are very large." " We'll go and see some of them," said Mr. George. " I should like to go and see them very much." So saying Mr. George led the way to the boat that the orange woman had pointed out as the one for Westminster ; and they stepped on board, together with a little crowd of other passengers who were going up the river like themselves. On board the boat . The eail on the river. Chapter III. The Eivee. Mb. Geoege and Rollo fell into the line of people that were pressing forward over the plank which led to the boat that the orange woman had directed them to embark in ; and they soon found themselves on board. The boat was small and quite narrow. There was no saloon or enclosed apartment of any kind for the passengers, nor even an awning to shelter them from the sun or rain. There were, however, substantial settees placed around the deck, some forward and others aft. Some of these settees were on the sides of the steamer, by the railing, and there were others placed back to back in the middle. There were not seats enough for all the passengers; and thus many were obliged to stand. As the boat glided along swiftly ov...« less