Rollo's Experiments

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Abbott Jacob. Rollo's Experiments

JONAS AN ASTRONOMER

PRUNING

THE GREAT BEETLE AND WEDGE

THE LITTLE BEETLE AND WEDGE

SPLITTING

HOROLOGY

JONAS’S DIAL

THE BEE-HIVE

JONAS’S MAGNET

MAGNETISM

INTELLECTUAL PHILOSOPHY

OSCILLATIONS

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One afternoon, Rollo saw his father coming out into the garden, with a little saw and a knife, and a small pot of paint in his hands.

“Father,” said he, “are you going to prune your trees now?”

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Rollo looked at it a moment, and then, when his father began sawing again, he said,

“Should not you like such a lamp, father?”

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