BETTER IN ARITHMETIC.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 2263, 8 May 1891, Page 6

BETTER IN ARITHMETIC.

There was ai sign on a Fourth Avenue House the other dayl' whicli read that rooms were to rent..' A : somewhat see.dy man, who had Apparently been looking for junt such! ah announcement (says the New York' Sun% ran'g'fchebeil, and when the girl appeared he asked — 7 "1^ roan's?"' '" '"'■ •'<■! •

■ : "Yes.'*': ••'. r[ ,' ■'•"' i " ■ "Tbpbfthe housed"' v "Lis'ht'an^'aify'f'' ; ; * Yes, sir. /• 1 " You are ridt th l^ landlady ?" " No, sir." __. f __ (>() (l \ #) / "Btit, perhaps yoii"<i'an 'teit'me why she makes use of , such a form bfj speech as * JV>r rent!\ ; that <To rfent' is far more euphonious— more i rhythm to lt-^f alls off the tongue with a sweeter^■'c'adence"j l so ! t6'Say ) | ? -^ ' U \ ' . \ , ."•' Is jt grammar you mean 1 ? I queried the.girl; 1 ' ■':---f i "i-'iW'«'- r^y-r, "Yes' partly." '' ' ; ' I<if '^ '^" i;i ,' '' d'qn'tig'd.a' cent ion .graratnar. 1 'and the jLffdy" ; probably, heyer' si^' one] and; her. husband has been dea^d' two t "! long years,. but ive'are baug up" in .artdi&ietic," and! getting four dollars per.week in advance, and I don t believe you^ve got money enbugh'tq pay '^or a r single "day,"^ " , ' And with that' r she ■banged" the J dfoo'r against his toes with a xjadence that sh^ed^i^6ffMs#/:'^ li ™ ' 1( '