and it
swung back very slowly.

"O, how slow!" said Rollo.

"Yes," said Mary, "it is very slow, indeed."

"I wish you had gone up to the garret window," said Rollo.

"O, this will do very well," said Mary.

Rollo determined to see how many he could count while the stone made one
oscillation to and fro. He counted sixteen.

Mary then said she was tired of experimenting, and so she should not
come down again. She, however, asked Rollo to set the pendulum
swinging, and that then she would draw the thread in, and he could see
that it would go faster and faster, the farther she drew it up, for that
would make the string grow shorter and shorter.

Rollo did so; and this was the end of the experiments on oscillations.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

The following corrections have been made to the text:

Page 14: She looked on with a good deal{original omitted this word} of
interest

Page 32: "What is satiety, father?"{original had a single quotation mark
instead of the double one}

Page 88: Then he stirred{original had stirrred} it about with his hand

Page 122: he took hold of the flower-pot with both his hands, and slid
it suddenly off of the seat.{the original had a footnote here, See
Frontispiece. The frontispiece however relates to a different chapter
(Pruning) and so the footnote has been removed}

Page 149: and the small end{original had and} of the magnet would draw
the point of the needle

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