Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1887 — She Was Right. [ARTICLE]

She Was Right.

A teacher was endeavoring to find out the profic ency of her little friends in mental arithmetic, and took the following method of ascertaining what she desired to know: “Now, children,” she said, “suppose I have two squash pies and divide one of them into ten pieces and the other into 100 pieces, which would you rather have—a piece of the pie that was divided into ten pieces or of that cut into 100 pieces?” There was an absolute hush for a moment. and then a Lttle girl answered, timidly: “One of the 100 pieces.” “Why?” “Well, please, ma’am, I don’t like squash pie.”—Boston Budget.