NO PROBLEM FOR HER
The teacher had given little Tim a simple problem in addition that he failed to work out. ‘ Numbers are dry,’ she reasoned with herself, and determined to make the lesson more interesting. ‘Suppose,’ she began, engagingly, ‘your mamma sent you to the store to buy three pounds of lamb, two pounds of potatoes, half a pound each of. carrots and turnips, and one pound of tomatoes would you have then?’ Tim shook his head, but Marybell, only a year older, raised an eager hand. ‘Well, Marybell?’ said the teacher with a sorrowful glance at little Tim. ‘ Stew!’ said Marybell, sweetly.
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New Zealand Tablet, 25 September 1913, Page 62
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104NO PROBLEM FOR HER New Zealand Tablet, 25 September 1913, Page 62
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