Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
The way in which it happened that Rollo’s father first began to explain to him something about the nature of fire, was this: It was one evening early in the autumn. Dorothy was going away to visit one of her friends, and Rollo was waiting for Jonas to come out, and see the fir...
The way in which it happened that Rollo’s father first began to explain to him something about the nature of fire, was this: It was one evening early in the autumn. Dorothy was...
2. CHAPTER II.Rollo did not think to ask his father the reason why the philosophers use such learned language, or, as he expressed it, such hard words, for several days. Perhaps he never woul...
3. CHAPTER III.When Rollo went out into the kitchen that evening to get his safety lamp,—the one which he usually took to go to bed,—he found Jonas sitting at the kitchen table reading; and wh...
4. CHAPTER IV.A few days after Rollo’s father gave him the instructions on the subject of combustion which are contained in the last chapter, Rollo saw Jonas going across the yard about the m...
5. CHAPTER V.There is a great difference between understanding theoretically how a thing is done, and being able actually to do it; for, in practice, various difficulties are apt to occur, w...
6. CHAPTER VI.When Rollo and James went home it was nearly tea-time, and they found Jonas just coming from the pasture. They told him of the ill success of their experiment in charcoal-making...
7. did. In the mean time, Jonas had poured some of it into the mortar, andwas grinding it up with his pestle; and, when Rollo asked him where saltpetre came from, and what it was for, Jonas said he did not know any thing at all about it, and went on p...
8. CHAPTER VII.After the explosion, James said that it was time for him to go home. It was about sundown. Rollo said that he would go home with him to keep him company, if his mother would let...
9. CHAPTER VIII.There are two ways by which the heat or the warmth of one body passes off to the other bodies around it. One is called _radiation_, the other _conduction_. Rollo learned the mea...
10. CHAPTER IX.When Rollo awoke the next morning, he found that the storm was over, and he was very glad to see that there was a prospect of a pleasant ride home. He heard a sound as of voices...
11. CHAPTER X.Very soon after Jonas had driven out of the village, Mr. Holiday went on with his explanation. Rollo sat, as before, upon the front seat; but, by turning a little in his seat, h...
12. CHAPTER XI.After the conversation recorded in the foregoing chapter, the party in the carryall rode on for some time in silence. They were going towards the east, and the morning sun shone...
13. CHAPTER XII.One night, some months after the occurrences related in the last few chapters, Rollo had an opportunity of witnessing with Jonas a great conflagration in the city. This incident...
14. CHAPTER XIII.Dorothy did not appear quite so much interested in his narrative as Rollo had expected. There are, in fact, a great many scenes which it is very interesting to witness, but whic...