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Updated: May 16, 2025
Any teacher who thought Margaret was too far advanced for her age got fired the minute it was spoke of, and pretty soon Margaret got onto it herself. She used to tell teachers she liked to say that she was very backward in her studies, and tell those she didn't like that Aunty Magdalene would be dreadful pleased to hear that she was improvin' in her readin' and 'rithmetic and grammar.
"Go down this minute do you hear? Rudolph, stop always letting your big brother get the best of you in marbles. Iz-zie!" "In a minute." "Don't let me have to ask you again, Isadore Kantor!" "Aw, ma, I got some 'rithmetic to do. Let Esther go!" "Always Esther! Your sister stays right in the front room with her spelling." "Aw, ma, I got spelling, too."
Elizabeth looked through the book in her hand slowly before she asked: "Why don't you? I was only about as far along as this in arithmetic last year. Some one said you were ready for it." "Oh, I kin do 'rithmetic all right, but I ain't no good in nothin' else an' an' wouldn't I look fine teachin' school?"
"Not by readin', 'ritin', or 'rithmetic." "No, we'll exclude the three R's for the present, although all of them may figure in our work before it is finished." "Well," mused Cub; "the others are history, geography, spelling " "Why didn't you stop with geography?" asked his father. "Geography!" exclaimed Bud. "How can you use that to explain a mystery?"
One thing is alike in the child and the girl. They both love to set thoughts down in black and white; to see how they look, how they sound, and how they make one feel when one reads them over. They both love the sound of beautiful sentences and the tinkle of rhyming words, and in fact, of the three great R's of life, they adore Reading and Riting, as much as they abhor 'Rithmetic.
The branches taught were "readin', writin', and cipherin' to the rule of three." Any young man who happened along with a fair knowledge of the three great R's "Readin', 'Ritin', and' Rithmetic" was thought fit to set up a school, taking his small pay in cash and boarding around that is, spending one day or more at a time as the guest of each of his patrons.
"And we've both of us learned Ellen geography and spellin' and 'rithmetic, till we know most as much as she does," said Fanny. "That's so," said Fanny. "I snum, I believe I could get into the high-school myself, if I wasn't goin' to git married," said Eva, with a gay laugh. She was so happy in those days that her power of continued resentment was small.
'I did not know, Mr. President, that you have two systems of arithmetic' 'Oh, yes, said the President; 'I will illustrate that point by a little story. Two young contrabands, as we have learned to call them, were seated together, when one said to the other, "Jim, do you know 'rithmetic?" Jim answered, "No; what is 'rithmetic?" "Well," said the other, "it's when you add up things.
Three times twenty's sixty, isn't it? so, surely that's more than enough to fight fifty." "Ah, boy," answered the trapper, with a slightly puzzled expression, "I never could make nothin' o' 'rithmetic, though my mother put me to school one winter with a sort o' half-mad parson that came to the head waters o' the Yellowstone river, an' took to teachin' dear me, how long ago was it now?
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