MATHEMATICS.
Teacher : ‘ If your mother had twenty-five yards of stuff and made a dress requiring but eighteen yards, how much would she have left ?’ Little Girl: ‘ Mamma can’t make her own dresses. She has tried often, and they are always either too ’ Teacher : ‘ Suppose she sent it to a dressmaker, how much would the dressmaker send back.’ Little Girl: ‘ Depends on which dressmaker she sent it to. Some wouldn’t send back any.’ Teacher (impatiently): ‘ Suppose she sent it to an honest one.’ Little Girl : ‘ Some of the honestest ones cut things to waste so that there is never anything left, no matter how much you send ’em.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 11, 12 March 1892, Page 264
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107MATHEMATICS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 11, 12 March 1892, Page 264
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