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Show WHAT 8HE SHOULD HAVE SAID. Mike's Addition Added to Discomfiture of Teacher. A teacher In the Garfield school wag teaching a primary class .the beginnings begin-nings ot arithmetic. "Now, I have one pencil In my right hand and one In my left," sho said. "How many pencils have I? Helen, you may answer." "Two," piped a small voice. "Then one end one make two, do they not?" "Sure!" The teacher frowned at the disrespectful disre-spectful answer. "That's hardly what you should have said," she said. "Will some one In the class tell Helen what her answer should have been?" There was a moment ot hesitation. Then one brown fist shot confidently into the air. ."Ah, James, you may tell Helen what she should have said." "Sure, Mike!" shouted Jlmmie, in a tone of triumph. Kansas City Star. |