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Show A READ X RECKONER, "Father, do you remember that mother aslted you for two dollars this morning ?" ''Yes, my child, what is it?" "JDo you remember that mother did not iiet it?" "Yes. And I remember what little girls don't think about." 'What ix that, father?" "I remember that we are not rich. But you seem in a brown study. What is my daughter thinking about ?" 'i was thinking how much one oigar C0S1f." "It costs ten cents not two dollars by n long shot." ' Hut ten cents three times a day is thinv ccnis." "That's true as tho multiplication table." "And thero aro seven days in the weok " "That's so by tho almanac." "And seven times thirty are two hundred and ten cents." "Hold on: I'll surrender. Here take the two dollars to your mother, and tell her that I'll do without cigars (or a week." ' Thank you father, but if you would only say a year. It would save more than a hundred dollars. We would ah have shoes and dresses, and mother a nice bonnet, and lota of pretty thincfl." "Well, to make my little girl happy I'll say a year." |