Show DADDYS N R I 1 P TA I 1 1 L 0 MARY 6 THE OUNCE the ounce commence daddy but both bolli the children interrupted him oil oh daddy they said oil oh daddy I 1 I 1 well what hat 1 Is 19 9 the Tr matter iatter asked D daddy ad dy are you going to give us a factory about arithmetic asked nancy you yon never have before and we have a good deal of arithmetic in fit school we complain nick ibbs pei pored e d to her for daddy tells us to t o many fine stories that we could certainly put up tip with one about arithmetic for once ill try to be nicer whispered nancy although I 1 do liale late arithmetic 11 cheer up said nick daddy lins has never told us an arithmetic story before lind and we will probably not he hear ar one again daddy smiled when ailion lie saw the calill children ere whispering secrets lie he asked 1 I knows know said nancy cheerfully what fin an ounce means its a measure of weight wel glit sixteen drams adrams mean tha same as one ounce I 1 sutten t that far in the book but I 1 heard some of the children re reciting elting those tables they were acre big children too and one of them thein forgot that sixteen ell drams adrams made an ounce she had bad to repeat it so many mally times that I 1 knew it dear mel laughed daddy aa a ad d so you know what tin an ounce ammus a good joke its a good one all right said nick when nancy who hates arith knows something I 1 dont know I 1 like I 1 think its easy well said daddy nancy is right in what she says but this to be an arithmetic story goodness you go to school to study that and this is the time tor for a story ive never heard of an arithmetic story before both the children sullied smiled its not to lie be an arithmetic story asked nancy oh no indeed said daddy what Is it going to be about asked nick an animal said daddy was his name ounce asked nancy and was lie he named that because lie only weighed a little little bit 1 I do believe nancy wants an arithmetic story daddy said with a twinkle k in his cio she seems to be thinking of weights and measures and tables 1 I dont have to said nancy laughing its easier for me not to good said daddy for the time being well pretend we never heard ut of arithmetic its a fine thin thing and we all have to learn it but not in the story hour oh no nol I 1 the family name of tills this animal im g going ol 01 to tell you about Is ounce they are known as the ounce family sometimes they are called the snow leopards now oswald ounce was a fine looking animal land and he knew it im a A 1 4 ir 4 oswald ounce was a fine looking animal relation of the leopard sand panthers I 1 he said and im also a cousin of the cats and I 1 lead a happy life what Is finer than to be up here in the high high mountains where here it is cold I 1 grow to be so beautiful here lly ily fur bec becomes olues very long and heavy its really quite lovely sly aly colors are interesting too I 1 am pale gray with lark dark spots and my tall Is quite exquisite so the ounce family lived happily up in the mountains tit in abla and oswald was the leader of all they were given such stich a funny name because it at one time souD hounded deil like a word vord w hichi meant leopard when you children grow to be bigger you will learn how different words come front from roots und and parts of other oilier words but we going to have an arith arithmetic e story wid and neither will we e have u lesson on oil words put but the hie roots of words ale aie the of word just as the roots of the hie trees are tile the foundations or starting points of III the trees and the ounce family liked their name because it was so differed dlf dif feren from all other names and they would tell folks auw low it used to be called once but that since they had become so so beautiful and important ani and liro had realized it they ila biad put a u in tile the word which made them more distinguished and stylish which is now the flintily family name |