"True again," I said. "So far as our experiments go, the magnet pulls iron always, and never any thing else."
"But what makes it pull iron?"
"That I can not tell. We see it does pull, but just how the pulling is done, or what makes it, no one has yet found out.
"For convenience we call the pulling power magnetism. You may keep the magnet, and at some other time, I will tell you more about it."
Language Lesson.—Name six words in the lesson, each of which is made up of two words by leaving out letters.
Write out the two words in each case.
What is the name of the mark which shows the omission of letters?
Point out the statement, command, question, and exclamation in the sentences given below.
"O, isn't it a funny horseshoe!"