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Show TEACHER DIDN'T KNOW SHEEP. City Woman Meets Surprise in Teaching Farmer's Daughter. A young city woman went out to teach a country school. The class in arithmetic was before her. She said: "Now, children, if there are ten sheep on one side of a wall and one sheep jumps over, how many sheep will be left? Then up piped the little tow-headed daughter of a farmer: "No sheep, teacher, no sheep." "Oil, oil!" cried the young city woman, wo-man, reproachfully. "You are not so stupid as that! Think again. If there were ten sheep on one side of the wall, and one sheep jumped over, nine sheep would be left. Don't you see that?" "No, no, no!" persisted the child. "If one sheep jumped over, all the others would jump after. My father keeps sheep." Then, seeing the puzzled puz-zled look on the teacher's face, the little tow-head explained apologetically: apologetical-ly: "You know mathematics, teacher, but I know sheep." |