"He can't keep it anyway," scoffed Felicity. "He's got such an
awful temper."

"It's a family failing," flashed Dan, breaking his resolution ere
the ink on it was dry.

"There you go," taunted Felicity.

"I'll work all my arithmetic problems without any help," scribbled
Felix.

"I wish I could resolve that, too," sighed Sara Ray, "but it
wouldn't be any use. 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