SIX TIMES NINE

New Zealand Tablet, 15 July 1909, Page 1117

SIX TIMES NINE

I studied my tables over and over And backward and forward too, But I couldn't remember six times nine, And I didn't know what to clo Till my sister told me to play with my doll And not to bother my head. ' If you'll call her " Fifty-four " for awhile, You'll learn it by heart,' she said. So I took my favorite Mary Ann (Though I thought it a dreadful shame To give such a perfectly lovely child Such a perfectly horrid name), And I called her my dear little ' Fifty-four ' A hundred times, till I knew • The answer of six times nine as well As the answer of two times two. Next day Elizabeth Wigglesworth, Who always acts so proud, Said, ' Six times nine is fifty-two,' And I nearly laughed aloud, But I wish I hadn't, for when teacher said, ' Now, Dorothy, tell if you can.' I thought of my doll, and sakes alive, I answered, 'Mary Ann!'