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Show Solving a Problem. The arithmetic lesson that day had been hard and trying, and now, at the closing hour, Tommy stood before the teacher, waiting to bear results. "Your last problem was wrong,' was the verdict "You will have to stay after school and do it again," Tommy looked at the clock. "Tell me, please, how much am I out?" he asked. "Your answer Is two cents short" Tommy's hand dived into the pocket pock-et where his most treasured possessions posses-sions were stored. Swiftly he separated sep-arated two pennies from a bunch of shoestrings, a penknife and some marbles and pieces of chalk. "I'm In a hurry, please,", he said; "if you don't mind. Til pay the differences'Pittsburgh dif-ferences'Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. Tele-graph. - t J r |