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"Speakin' o' my third wife's half brother," Single broke out, at last. "What kind o' fambly was that?" interrupted the sour puncher. "Thirds, an' halfs, an' things. Sounds more like 'rithmetic than a fambly." "It was harder'n 'rithmetic," Single replied darkly. "Gee, what a fambly!" groaned the other, but Single did not heed him. "An' his name was Sam Sharp," Single went on.
Only it worn't far away. Too far to walk, honey, and the train was to take the poor child. Some miles off maybe fifteen maybe a score; but railly I can't remember. I ain't good at mintal 'rithmetic, darlint." "Never mind about that now," said Hester; "we have to think of the cap'n first, and of how to outwit Dent. Now, listen. I have got an idea in the back of my head."
Sim had a man to work on our cranberry bog, and he found out that he was first-rate in 'rithmetic, this man was, and so Sim, says he, I'll give ye the same ye git on the bog, says he, 'to stay up to the house and larn my boys 'rithmetic, says he; and the man, he tried it, and in the course of a day or two, he come around to Sim, and wanted to know if he couldn't go back to clarin' bog again."
An' then, to lose Philosopher Jack on the selfsame day. It comes hard on an old salt. The way that young man has strove to drive jogriffy, an' 'rithmetic, an navigation into my head is wonderful; an' all in vain too! It's a'most broke his heart to say nothin' of my own. It's quite clear that I'll never make a good seaman.
The horses turned their hanging heads a little, and, miraculously, there they were in the middle of the road again. Elizabeth Ann drew a long breath of relief and pride, and looked to Uncle Henry for praise. But he was busily setting down figures as though he were getting his 'rithmetic lesson for the next day and had not noticed ... Oh, there they were going to the left again!
We drove on and had gone some distance when he asked: "Do you know all about 'rithmetic?" "I at least know the multiplication table." "It's more than I do. Get up there, boys. And down in my country they think that a man that don't know all about 'rithmetic is a fool.
Our hero made good progress during the few months that he remained at the pension, and when McElvina returned to take him away, not only could speak the French language with fluency, but had also made considerable progress in what Sir W. C used to designate in his toast as "the three R's," viz., "Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic."
She'd dig an' rake away an' be right down happy over it. Them was the very words she said." "Were they?" said Mary. "How many things she knows, doesn't she?" "Eh!" said Martha. "It's like she says: 'A woman as brings up twelve children learns something besides her A B C. Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things." "How much would a spade cost a little one?" Mary asked.
A little history, one would say, that the pupil may have some notion of what has been before him; and a little geography, that he may know there are such things as land and sea, and cities beyond, which he cannot see, shut up in Rome. With us, the lowest amount of education that ever receives the name comprises at least the three R's, as they are termed, Reading, Writing, and 'Rithmetic.
May the parched pea never jump out of the frying-pan into the fire. The three R's: Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic. May evil communications never corrupt good manners. May the celebrated pin a day, of which we have heard so much, always make the groat a year. May the groat a year never be unwisely invested in a Joint-Stock Company. May that man never grow fat Who carries two faces under one hat.
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