ROLLO’S
EXPERIMENTS.

BY THE

AUTHOR OF ROLLO LEARNING TO TALK, TO
READ, AT WORK, AT PLAY, AT SCHOOL,
AT VACATION, &c.

BOSTON:
WEEKS, JORDAN, AND COMPANY

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839,

By T. H. Carter,

In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED AT THE
BOSTON TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

CONTENTS.

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ROLLO’S EXPERIMENTS.

JONAS AN ASTRONOMER.

One day, when Rollo was about seven years old, he was sitting upon thesteps of the door, and he heard a noise in the street, as of some sortof carriage approaching. A moment afterwards, a carryall came in sight.It drove up to the front gate, and stopped. Rollo’s father and motherand his little brother Nathan got out. His father fastened the horse tothe post, and came in.

When Rollo first heard the noise of the carryall, he was sitting stillupon the steps of the door, thinking. He was thinking of something thatJonas, his father’s hired boy, had told him about the sun’s shining inat the barn door. There was a very large double door to Rollo’s father’sbarn, and as this door opened towards the south, the sun...