CHAPTER IX. 

DIFFICULTY 

Although it was winter when the boys were taking this ride, yet the sun was shining in a very warm and pleasant manner, and the snow was every where softening in the fields and melting in the roads, indicating that the spring was coming on. 

There was a little stream of water, coming down the hill in the middle of the road, and forming a long pool at the bottom. Jonas turned his horse to one side, to avoid this pool of water, and waited until Oliver came up. 

"Well, Oliver," said he,--"tired of the mill already?" 

"Why, no," said Oliver, "only I thought that, on the whole, I'd rather go with you. I didn't think that you were going to be gone so long." 

"It is about two miles," said Jonas. 

"Where are you going?" said Oliver. 

"O, to see about some logs. I thought you heard your father tell me to go and see about some logs." 

"What about the logs?" said Oliver. 

"Why, to make the boards of, for the barn." 

"O," replied Oliver, "I didn't know that." 

"Yes," continued Jonas, "when we want boards, we have to go to somebody who owns some pine timber in the woods, and get him to cut down some of them, and haul them to the mill. Then they saw them up, and make boards." 

"What mill?" said Oliver. 

"At that saw-mill near the carding-mill. The mill down in the village, you know, is a grist-mill." 

By this time, the boys had got to the top of the hill, and they got into the sleigh, and rode along. Presently, they came to a place where Jonas was going to turn off, into a sort of by-road which led away into the woods, where the pine-trees grew. The man that owned the trees lived pretty near, in a farm-house. 
What was by the sawmill?
What was in the village?
What season was it?
What were the young men doing?
Was it sunny?
What melted?
Which season was approaching?
Was there a large body of water?
Then what type of water?
Where did it come from?
Where was that?
How did it end?
Was an animal ridden?
What kind?
By whom?
Was he watching for someone?
For whom?
How far was it?
Who sent them to see the wood?
What were they making?
carding-mil
carding-mil
grist-mill
 grist-mill
winter
winter
taking this ride,
taking this ride,
Yes
Although it was winter when the boys were taking this ride, yet the sun was shining in a very warm and pleasant manner, and the snow was every where softening in the fields and melting in the roads, indicating that the spring was coming on. 
snow
snow
spring
spring
No
There was a little stream of water, coming down the hill in the middle of the road, and forming a long pool at the bottom.
a little stream
a little stream
down the hill
down the hill
middle of the road
middle of the road
a long pool
a long pool 
yes
Jonas turned his horse to one side, to avoid this pool of water, and waited until Oliver came up. 

horse
horse
Jonas
Jonas
Yes
Jonas turned his horse to one side, to avoid this pool of water, and waited until Oliver came up
Oliver
Oliver
two miles
two miles
father
 father 
boards
boards