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Jonas on a Farm in Winter

CHAPTER XI
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I always like to have a name.

There's the old 'General,'-- we have had many a good time with him; and my 'Conqueror,'-- there isn't a boy in town that doesn't know my sled." "We might call it 'Gibraltar,'" said Rollo.
"Yes, that's a good name," said Oliver.

"How do you like 'Iceberg Castle'?
Jonas was telling us all about the icebergs the other evening; and I read a story, about a famous 'Ice Palace' in Russia; how do you like that ?" "I don't like that," said Rollo.

"Ours is a _fort_; it isn't a palace." "If you are going to have it a palace," said Nathan, "whom will you have for a _king_ ?" "You may be king, Nathan," said Rollo, "and we will soon demolish your palace, and make a prisoner of you." "No, no," said Oliver, "the fort shall stand as long as ice will last.

I mean to pour water all over it, and freeze it into solid ice; and I expect the last ice to be seen any where about next spring, will be the ruins of the old fort." After some discussion, the boys agreed to call it "Iceberg Castle." They then took a survey, inside and out, of their morning's work, and decided to proceed at once and build the partition which Rollo proposed before dinner.


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