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Seligor's Castle, fun for all the children of the world. Blogs
Thu, 18 Aug 2011
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Arithmetic, is where numbers fly like pigeons ....... very, very good.
SELIGOR'S CASTLE Fun for all the
children
ARITHMETIC by Carl
Sandburg
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and
out of your head. Arithmetic tell you how many you lose or
win if you know how many you had
before you lost or won. Arithmetic is seven eleven all good
children go to heaven -- or five six bundle of
sticks. Arithmetic is numbers
you squeeze from your head to your
hand to your
pencil to your paper till you get the
answer. Arithmetic is where
the answer is right and everything is nice
and you can look out
of the window and see the blue sky -- or the answer is wrong
and you have to start all over and try
again and see how it
comes out this time. If
you take a number and double it and double it again
and then double it a few
more times, the number gets bigger and
bigger and goes higher
and higher and only arithmetic can tell
you what
the number is when you decide to quit
doubling. Arithmetic is where
you have to multiply -- and you carry
the multiplication
table in your head and hope you won't lose
it. If you have two animal
crackers, one good and one bad, and
you eat one
and a striped zebra with streaks all over him eats
the other,
how many animal crackers will you have if
somebody offers you five
six seven and you say No no no and you
say Nay nay
nay and you say Nix nix nix? If
you ask your mother for one fried egg for breakfast
and she gives you two
fried eggs and you eat both of them, who
is better
in arithmetic, you or your mother?
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