I'd never be able to do those compound multiplication sums the teacher gives us to do at home every night if I didn't get Judy Pineau to help me.

Judy isn't a good reader and she can't spell AT ALL, but you can't stick her in arithmetic as far as she went herself.

I feel sure," concluded poor Sara, in a hopeless tone, "that I'll NEVER be able to understand compound multiplication." "'Multiplication is vexation, Division is as bad, The rule of three perplexes me, And fractions drive me mad,'" quoted Dan.
"I haven't got as far as fractions yet," sighed Sara, "and I hope I'll be too big to go to school before I do.

I hate arithmetic, but I am PASSIONATELY fond of geography." "I will not play tit-tat-x on the fly leaves of my hymn book in church," wrote Peter.
"Mercy, did you ever do such a thing ?" exclaimed Felicity in horror.
Peter nodded shamefacedly.
"Yes--that Sunday Mr.Bailey preached.

He was so long-winded, I got awful tired, and, anyway, he was talking about things I couldn't understand, so I played tit-tat-x with one of the Markdale boys.