A SUM IN ARITHMETIC

New Zealand Tablet, 31 December 1908, Page 37

A SUM IN ARITHMETIC

r An intelligent-looking. hoy walked into a grocer's >hop - one day,, aiid, reading from a paper, said: 'I want six pounds of sugar at six and one-half cents a pound;' j. , 'Yes,' said the shopman; ' that will be thirty-nine ij cents.' .... '; ,' .V'" .' '. „.Y'.Y.. W ■■' Eleven, pounds of rice at six cents.; a pound.' ",'. ' Sixty-six cents.' .••■■■■.''■ ■ • ■ V - ■ Fourpounds of tea at fifty cents a pound.' • ' Two dollars.' / s , •>- • And so he continued: * Five pounds of coffee at twentyfive cents, seven tins of milk at ten cents, four tins of tomatoes at nine cents, eight tins of sardines at fifteen cents.' The shopman made out the hill aiid handed it to the V lad, saying: - Didyour mother send theymoney or does sho want theni entered?'

'My mother didn't send me at all/ said the boy seizing hold of the bill. < It's my arithmetic lesson, and I had to get it done somehow.'