Then Rollo and Nathan went back, and repeated this story to their father.
“Very well,” said their father; “that was a very good way to get a magnet. I remember giving Jonas the file; but I did not know what he wanted it for.”
“I think a magnet is a very curious thing,” said Rollo. “See how the nail sticks to it!”
“There are a great many other things curious about it,” said his father, “besides that.”
“What?” said Rollo.
“I should want some other apparatus to show you,” replied his father.
“And can’t you get the other apparatus?”
“I don’t know. Perhaps mother might get it. Yes, I’ll tell you what we will do. I will name some things which mother may prepare, and you may get them together upon the table in the kitchen, when they have got the kitchen all in order. Then I will come out, and give you all, out there, a lecture upon magnetism.”
Rollo and Nathan were exceedingly pleased with this plan; and even Rollo’s mother looked somewhat gratified. She said she did not know much about magnetism, and she meant to go out into the kitchen herself, and hear the lecture.