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Why, I know 'em purty nigh off by heart! That's how-cum I kin talk so good when I stop to think. By repeatin' arter her I know the alphabet, the multiplication table, mental 'rithmetic up ter long dervision, some history, 'n' some g'ography but I hain't never seed a map, nor writin'. Her books is writ in blind." "I think you have learned a great deal," she smiled at him.
"Can't keep grammar an' 'rithmetic into my head both to once; leastways, not when the 'rithmetic's such a hard one as this." The excuse was accepted as valid; and Jim and the matter which was now agitating his mind, both being at present in high favor and held in great interest, any further lapses were suffered to pass without correction or remark.
He hated to go to school, but he loved to play school; and when Johnny Robertson and he were not conducting a pompous, public funeral a certain oblong hat-brush, with a rosewood back, studded with brass tacks, serving as a coffin, in which lay the body of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, or the Duke of Wellington, all of whom died when Johnny and The Boy were about eight years old they were teaching each other the three immortal and exceedingly trying "R's" reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic in a play-school.
"Oh, ain't you? I thought that was a 'rithmetic over there." "Well, I know 'em now. Besides, you ain't got any right to order me around. You ain't my uncle. Can't I read that book, Uncle Perez?" Poor Perez! He hesitated, swallowed once or twice, and answered, "You can read it after you've studied a spell. You'll let him have it then, won't you, Eri? Now study, like a good boy."
'Ef I can't do it by substraction I'll do it by long-division, says he. And ef this 'rithmetic preacher can't make a finishment of this sublunary speer by addition, he'll do it by multiplyin'. They's only one answer in his book. Gin him any sum you please, and it all comes out 1843!" Now in all the region round about Sugar Grove school-house there was a great dearth of sensation.
In the first two R's, "readin' and 'ritin'," Miss Thompson was proficient. She wrote a flowery Spencerian, which was beautifully "shaded" and looked well on the blackboard, and reading was the dissipation of her spare moments. The third "R," 'rithmetic, she loathed. Youth, even at the ages of from seven to twelve, is only too proficient in learning to evade hard work.
"Are you goin' to keep on at William Penn all winter, Absalom?" Mrs. Wackernagel asked. "Just long enough to see if he kin learn 'rithmetic to me. Ezra Herr, he was too dumm to learn me." "Mebbe," said the doctor, astutely, "you was too dumm to GET learnt!" "I AM wonderful dumm in 'rithmetic," Absalom acknowledged shamelessly. "But pop says this here teacher is smart and kin mebbe learn me.
"I'm not so very grown up, Jim," answered the little girl; "and I've not gone so very far in the 'rithmetic; and I'm sure this kind of a sum must be in the very back part of the book." "Here comes Bill," said Jim, as a boy of his own age and social standing appeared around the corner of the house, a tin pail in one hand, a shrimp-net in the other. "Maybe he'll know. Mr.
"Special pleading, Willie." "Not at all. Every man's life bears its inscription if he will take the trouble to read it. There was James Grahame, born, as you may say, wi' a sword in his hand, and Bauldy Strang wi' a spade, and Andrew Semple took to the balances and the 'rithmetic as a duck takes to the water. Do you not mind the day you spoke anent the African missions to the young men in St.
You'd think even a man would know that a house that's all right for two gets a little small for seven," she added, scornfully, to Nora. "Are there seven of you?" "Me and Sid and five little ones. If that don't make seven, I've forgotten all the 'rithmetic I ever learned," said Mrs. Sharp briefly.
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