tri jaroj gxi havas dudek ok tagojn, sed en la sekvanta jaro gxi havas
dudek naux tagojn. La jaro havanta tian februaron estas la "superjaro."
Mi rakontis tiun interesan aferon al la frato, kaj li diris ke li bone
memoros gxin. Li diris ke li ne antauxe sciis pri la superjaro. Li
ne sciis ke la superjaro havas tricent sesdek ses tagojn, kvankam la
aliaj jaroj havas nur tricent sesdek kvin tagojn. Li diris ke li ankaux
memoros pri la nombro da tagoj en la superjaro, kaj ke li rakontos la
aferon al la aliaj knaboj.


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1. (To be written out in full): 14, 18, 42, 86, 79, 236, 431, 687, 788,
1240, 1885, 9872, 4500, 1912. 2. There are twelve months in a year, and
in most of the months of the year there are thirty-one days. 3. There
are only thirty days in the months April, June, September and November.
4. There are seven days in a week, and twenty-four hours in a day. 5.
Twelve of these hours make the day, and the others make the night. 6.
There are sixty minutes in one hour, and sixty seconds in one minute.
7. There are four weeks and also two or three days in one month. 8.
In the year there are fifty-two weeks. 9. How many weeks are there in
ten years? 10. At least one year in ten years is a leap-year. 11. In a
leap-year there are three hundred and sixty-six days, instead of three
hundred and sixty-five. 12. Wise men calculated about this matter, many
years ago. 13. It is well for us that they liked to study arithmetic.
15. I have often received good grades in this study. 16. I remember it
easily, and seldom make mistakes.