MATHEMATICS
FOR THE RIGGER BOYS AND GIRLS | 1 studied my arithmetic. And then I went to bed. And on my little pillow white Laid down my little head. I hoped for dreams of dear delight, Of sugar-candy bliss; But oh. my sleep, the livelong night, Was filled with things like this. Add forty jars of damson jam ] To fifty loaves of cake, • Subtract a cow, and tell me how i Much butter it will make. i Then add the butter to the jam, ! And give it to a boy, ; How long will’t take ere grievous ache ' Shall dash his childish joy? j Next, if a Tiger climbed a tree I To get a coeoanut, I And if by hap the feline chap j Should find the shop was shut; J And if ten crabs with clawing dabs j ! Should pinch his Bengal toes, ' What would remain when lie should j ; gain j The ground, do you suppose? : Divide a stick of licorice j By twenty infant jaws, I How long must each lose power of I | speech | In masticating pause? And if these things are asked of you. While you’re a-chewin.-j of it, | What sum of birch, rod, pole or perch . | Will be your smarting profit? 1 woke upon my little bed In anguish and in pain. ; I’d sooner lose my brand-new shoes Than dream those dreams again!
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 10 June 1939, Page 12
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