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on it from his watch, after finding the mark for 

 twelve o'clock when the sun reached the highest 

 point in the sky. He also ran a north and south 

 line from the north star and put up an arrow to 

 show the way the wind blew. 



William had a few little experiments he wanted 

 to try: one of these was making rock candy. He 

 had made it from white sugar and he followed the 

 same method, boiling down the syrup until it was 

 pretty thick, then setting it in a warm place with 

 fibers hung in it. It was not long before he had the 

 satisfaction of seeing the clear crystals of sugar gath- 

 er on the fibers; and the family, including Snow- 

 ball and the monkey, pronounced the experiment a 

 success. 



Then he took some salt and dissolved it in a little 

 cold water and hung fibers in it in the same way. 

 After awhile, he had pure salt crystals to exhibit. 



Nothing remained now to be fixed except a little 

 fencing, a break or two in the hedge, a leak in the 

 roof, and a weak rail in the pig pen where the pigs 

 had been rubbing their backs. When this was done, 

 all the family went to the beach and took a good 

 swim and lav in the warm sand until time for dinner. 



"Tomorrow, the real sport begins," said William. 

 "We are going to have large increases in our fam- 

 ily!" 



