Stories of Rainbow and Lucky 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: Cold and windy evening. Mrs. Level's fireside. Chapter III. Trouble. IT was on a cold and windy day in March that Handie went to work at the farmer's on t... more »he barn, and when he came home in the evening the first thing that he did was to build up a good fire. He put on a stout forestick across the andirons, and laid the brands and half-burnt sticks upon and behind it. Then he brought in some pine chips and sticks from the shop, and put them underneath. All this time his mother was at work setting the table for supper. The light from the fire soon illuminated the whole room in a very cheerful manner. It shone out over the floor, and flashed on the walls and curtains, and made such a bright light at the windows as to make every traveler that rode by in the cold turn his head and look steadily at it all the time that he was passing. One boy, who was covered up in the buffalo in his father's wagon, put his head out to see, and said, " Ah! father, I'll warrant you they are go- C The four apples. Advantage of the forestick. Mr. Level. ing to have a good supper in that house tonight." Handie, when he had finished building the fire, and had swept up the hearth, went to his coat and took four large apples out of the pockets. " Captain Early gave me some apples, mother," said he, " and I am going to roast them for you." Captain Early was the name of a farmer for whom Handie had been at work that day. " They are Eoxburg russets," said Handie, "and of the biggest kind." So he put the apples down upon the hearth in a row under the forestick, directly in the glow of the fire. " That's a good place for them to get roasted," said he. " The forestick will prevent any thing falling on them; that's the reason why I put such a big forestick on." Pretty soon Mr. Level...« less