“Why, Rollo,” said she, “how came the table wet?”
“Why, Nathan and I did it,” said he.
“How?” said his mother.
“Why, we did it—eh—pulling. But Jonas has settled it all, mother.”
“Ah! Jonas has settled it, has he? very well. Then we will all now attend to the lecture.”
MAGNETISM.
Rollo’s father looked over the things which had been arranged upon the table, for a moment, in silence, and then took up Jonas’s magnet.