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Updated: May 10, 2025
Let me remember what they are. First. To think of the wind blowing on a field of grain. Watch with your mind's eye the long wavy undulations, the golden sheen which takes the light. What a dreamy, exquisite rhythm! Second. Repeat the multiplication-table backward, from twelve times down to twice. Third. Try to decide where to spend the August vacation.
It seemed that he was sleepy now, and did not wish to talk. "I know Alexandrowo pretty well," the other volunteered, nevertheless, "and the ways of these gentlemen. With some of them I am quite on friendly terms. They are inconceivably stupid; as boring as the multiplication-table. I am going to Warsaw; are you? I fancy we have the sleeping-car to ourselves. I live in Warsaw as much as anywhere."
We youngsters, who were rocked to sleep with the roar of the surf in our ears, one wall of whose play-room was colored in blue edged with white, in striking contrast with the peaceful green of the three other sides, who have many a night lain warm in bed and listened to the distant roll of a sea-chorus and the swinging tramp of a dozen jolly blue-jackets, we whose greatest indulgence was a sail with Old Card, the boatman par excellence, we who knew ships, as the farmer's boy knows his oxen, before we had mastered the multiplication-table, it is not strange that we should take kindly to salt water.
"Beale or no Beale," Maisie had heard her mother reply, "I take her because she's a lady and yet awfully poor. Rather nice people, but there are seven sisters at home. What do people mean?" Maisie didn't know what people meant, but she knew very soon all the names of all the sisters; she could say them off better than she could say the multiplication-table.
He looked with eyes more full of pity than usual at blear-eyed, delicate little Jennie, as to whom he could never tell whether it was the multiplication-table that made her deathly sick, or sickness that kept her from multiplying.
Fictitious details crowded thick and fast upon her a regular hotchpotch; she had only to stretch out her hand and seize what she needed. It was simpler than the five-times multiplication-table, and did not need to be learnt.
The fact is much the reverse: and even the Constitutional British Parliament abstains from such arduous attempts as these latter in the voting line; and leaves the multiplication-table, the chemical, mechanical and other qualities of material substances to take their own course; being aware that voting and perorating, and reporting in Hansard, will not in the least alter any of these.
She used to go to school for some hours every day: and I should have liked to go with her, and help her in her studies, especially when I found that she was learning the multiplication-table, and I remembered how useful I had been to Rose in that very lesson; but dolls were not allowed at school, and I was obliged to wait patiently for Susan's company till she had finished all her business, both at school and at home.
Bethink you of the garden walk last night." "We were talking all the time of the sweetbrier and hollyhocks, and things like that." "You might have talked of the days of the week or the multiplication-table: one kind of words was just as good as another. Any thing Steve said last night could have been spelled with four letters." "Four letters?" "To be sure. L-o-v-e." "You used to like Stephen."
As to the former, the multiplication-table was chanted in chorus by the whole body of children, a rhythmical and varied movement of the arms being carried on at the same time. These exercises gave us pleasure and fastened the tables in our minds. As to geography, that gave pleasure in another way.
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