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Show I'orreclinir the Tenrlier. In ono of the Springfield grammar schools the teacher was explaining an example iu arithmetic on tho blackboard, and had finished it with tho exception of the last two figures of the answer, which was in dollars and cents, when she was called out of the room. On returnin;; 0110 of the pupils raised her hand and said, "There nre some cents to the an Hwer iu tho book, but there isn't nny o; tho board." "Why, Nellie, what do you mean by speaking to mu like that?" tin teacher exclaimed in anger. After tie I school had been in n roar of laughter fo; fully a minute it dawned on the teach cr's "mind that it was "cents" instead o "wiuso" that the girl was talking aboui Surinnlield Homestead. |