Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1898 — Eugene Field’s Arithmetic. [ARTICLE]

Eugene Field’s Arithmetic.

The first hook which Eugene Field had printed was the “Tribune Primer,” published in Denver In 1882. It was composed of short lessons In different lines of study. As there are said to be not more than seven or eight copies of the book now In existence, readers may be glad to see two specimen paragraphs from the lesson In “mental arithmetic:” If you have Five Oncnmbers and eat Three, what will you have left? Two. No; you are wrong. You will have more than that. You wlil have Colic enough to double you up In a Bow Knot for Six Hours. You may go to the foot of the Class. If a Horse weighing 1,600 pounds con Haul four tons of Pig Iron, how many seasons will a Front Gate painted Blue carry a young Woman on One Side and a young Man on the Other?