"[...]again, an' your teacher'll be sending in more complaints. 'Bout all them teachers is good for anyway-settin' like ladies twiddling at the leaves of a book, an' thinkin' themselves somethin' fine because they know a few words of Latin, an' can figure with an x. Algebry is all very fine in its way, but I guess plain arithmetic is good enough for most folks. It's all I was brought up on, an' the multiplication table has kept me on a level with the majority.' Pauline smiled to herself, as she cut generous slices of ...
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"[...]again, an' your teacher'll be sending in more complaints. 'Bout all them teachers is good for anyway-settin' like ladies twiddling at the leaves of a book, an' thinkin' themselves somethin' fine because they know a few words of Latin, an' can figure with an x. Algebry is all very fine in its way, but I guess plain arithmetic is good enough for most folks. It's all I was brought up on, an' the multiplication table has kept me on a level with the majority.' Pauline smiled to herself, as she cut generous slices of pumpkin pie to go with the doughnuts and bread and butter in the different dinner pails. That was just what tired her; being 'on a level with the majority.' The long morning wore itself away. Pauline toiled bravely over the endless array of pinafores which the youthful Hardings managed to make [...]."
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