One Way of Doing it.
A pleasant-faced lad stepped into a grocer's shop in New York the other day, and reading from a piper -laid: — " I want pis pounds of sugar at four oen f s a pound." "Yes," said the assistant:, " that will be twenty-four cents." " Eleven pounds •>f rice at six cents a pound." " Sixty* *ix cants," rep" i id the shopman. " Six quarts of beans at 16 cents per q-iart." " Ninety -six cental" And 'he youth crntinued : ' "Three pounds of codfish at so much, four pounds of tea, five tins of pears, "even tins of tomitoeg, eiz tins of corn, and ' Please give me a bill for it.' " The assistant made the calculation, and hand' d the bill to the ad with the remark, "Did your mother send the money, or are the goods to be charged ?" " My mother didn't send me at all," said the bny, ] seizing hold of the bill, "it's my arithmetic lesson, and I had to get it. done somehow."
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Manawatu Herald, 22 April 1899, Page 2
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167One Way of Doing it. Manawatu Herald, 22 April 1899, Page 2
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