Jacob Abbott

Jonas on a Farm in Winter

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Produktbeschreibung

About an hour after breakfast, Jonas with the oxen, and Oliver and Josey with the horse, wereslowly moving along up the road which led back from the pond towards the wood lot. The wood lotwas a portion of the forest, which had been reserved, to furnish a supply of wood for the winterfires. The road followed for some distance the bank of the brook, which emptied into the pond atthe place where Jonas and Oliver had cleared land, when Jonas first came to live on this farm.It was a very pleasant road. The brook was visible here and there through the bushes and trees onone side of it. These bushes and trees were of course bare of leaves, excepting the evergreens, andthey were loaded down with the snow. Some were bent over so that the tops nearly touched theground.The brook itself, too, was almost buried and concealed in the snow. In the still places, it had frozenover; and so the snow had been supported by the ice, and thus it concealed both ice and water. Atthe little cascades and waterfalls, however, which occurred here and there, the water had not frozen.Water does not freeze easily where it runs with great velocity. At these places, therefore, the boyscould see the water, and hear it bubbling and gurgling as it fell, and disappeared under the ice whichhad formed below.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SMK Books
• Seitenzahl: 90
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9781515420552
• ISBN-10: 1515420558
• Artikelnr.: 52439078

Autorenporträt

Jacob Abbott (November 14, 1803 - October 31, 1879) was an American writer of children's books. From 1825 to 1829 was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Amherst College; was licensed to preach by the Hampshire Association in 1826; founded the Mount Vernon School for Young Ladies in Boston in 1829, and was principal of it in 1829-1833; was pastor of Eliot Congregational Church (which he founded), at Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1834-1835; and was, with his brothers, a founder, and in 1843-1851 a principal of Abbott's Institute, and in 1845-1848 of the Mount Vernon School for Boys, in New York City. He was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. He wrote 180 books and was a coauthor or editor of 31 more. He died in Farmington, Maine, where he had spent part of his time after 1839, and where his brother, Samuel Phillips Abbott, founded the Abbott School. His Rollo Books, such as Rollo at Work, Rollo at Play, Rollo in Europe, etc., are the best known of his writings, having as their chief characters a representative boy and his associates. In them Abbott did for one or two generations of young American readers a service not unlike that performed earlier, in England and America, by the authors of Evenings at Home, The History of Sandford and Merton, and The Parent's Assistant. To follow up his Rollo books, he wrote of Uncle George, using him to teach the young readers about ethics, geography, history, and science. He also wrote 22 volumes of biographical histories and a 10 volume set titled the Franconia Stories.[2] HIs brothers, John Stevens Cabot Abbott and Gorham Dummer Abbott, were also authors. His sons, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott, both eminent lawyers, Lyman Abbott, and Edward Abbott, a clergyman, were also well-known authors. See his Young Christian, Memorial Edition, with a Sketch of the Author by Edward Abbott with a bibliography of his works. Other works of note: Lucy Books, Jonas Books, Harper's Story Books, Marco Paul, Gay Family, and Juno Books.