SUBTRACTION.
"Now, in order to subtract," the teacher explained. "Things have always to "be of the same denomination. For instance, we could not take three apples from four pears, nor six horses from nine dogs."
"Teacher," shouted a 6inall boy, "can't you take four quarts of milk from' three cows ?"
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)
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50SUBTRACTION. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)
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