A schoolmaster was taking a class that had the reputation of being the dullest in the school. He began with elementary mathematics. He asked a boy to name a number. The boy chose 27, and the master wrote on the board 72. Nobody noticed anything. .Again, 4S was chosen, lie wrote S 4. Nobody protested, lie determined to have one. more try. and itv.ked a, small boy at the end of the room for a. number. "Thirty-three," shouted the hoy, "an' let's see if yer can muek iibabt wiv that."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 18 June 1926, Page 8
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