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J ani'i:,— Please, Miss Brent, ma is always saying j couldn't look
any more simple if I tried— that I don’t look half what I know.
T ea c h er.— J ane, please attend strictly to the subject of the lesson.
Tell me what you mean by quartering.
J ane,— Y ou cut the apple into four pieces.
T ea c h er.— P lease give me another term for pieces,
J ane,— C hunks [
T ea c h er.'— N o. W ho can give me a better wore? ?
S at_.lv.— Parts.
, T eacher,— T hat is right. Now, children, look carefully and be
ready to tell me how these parts com pare in size.
£ z ra (who is inclined to he greedy),— They are awful stingy pieces,
teacher-— -jus!; bites !
T e a c h e r,— Ezra, if you indulge in an ym ore such remarks you wil'
have to -stay after school for your lesson, (Eara sinks hack sullenly
Sally, yo'i may tell me.
S a lu (cautiously).— T h ey’re about the same size.
T e a ch f.r ('somewhat discouraged').— Take the parts in your hand
and observe how even ly -I have cut them . ( The pieces arc passed
around and examined very critic ally by tke children?)
Jonas (raises hand),— Barring the knots and the poor places, I
reckon you meant to have them all alike.
T e a c h e r.— Y es, you can see that were the apple perfect, the parts
would be all alike. {Hastily cuts a very symmetrical orange so as to
remove this new objection from her hypercritical pupils') W h at can you
say of these parts? {Tke teacher here suddenly notices a boy with
a suspicious looking protuberance in his cheek.) Johnny Simpkins, what;

is the m atter with your clieek?
Johnny (in muffled tones).-— 'Nothing, m a’am.
T e a c h e r ,— Johnny Simpkins, you arc eating in school.
Johnny (in still more muffled tone).— NoVn.
TEACHER (with sarcastic sympathy).— A h i I see. You have had
the tooth-ache, I will send for a remedy at once. You must be in
great pain.