Johnson, Gaylord · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 111
ing warm Summersand cold Winters. Well find out about that someother time. Just now we want to find out whatmakes the sun-dial tell time. Uncle Henry then drew the quarter circle thatlies between the equator and the pole of the earthlarger, and at intervals of twenty degrees along thecurve his… … FIFTH REEL 97 We found out yesterday, continued UncleHenry, that here on your Grandpas farm we areabout half the distance between the earths equatorand pole. To be exact we are just four-ninths ofthe way, or just forty of the ninety degrees awayfrom the equator. Astronomers w^ould say that ourfarm…
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