Show he went up one in a school in a small Fife shire all lage the other day the teacher was giving a lesson in subtraction it has the class some time to mas ter the mysteries of addition and in this rule she found them no less dull driven to desperation by the stupid ity of their replies she rashly prom ased three whole pennies to the child who gave her the smartest anaker of course she explained for the twentieth time you can only subtract things of the same name for in stance you cant take eight marbles from 16 years or four horses from seven pence A hand shot up at the back of the class and the teacher broke off to in quire what was the matter please miss squeaked a small boy s voice can t you take three pen nies from one purse then |