8. If I write One, this is called the word One.
9. This, 1, is named a figure One, because it means the same as the word One, and stands for One.
10. Write 1. What is this named? Why?
11. A figure 1 may stand for one girl, one kitten, or one anything.
12. When children first attend school, what do they begin to learn? Ans. Letters and words.
13. Could you read or write before you had learned either letters or words?
14. If we have all the letters together, they are named the Alphabet.
15. If we write or speak words, they are named Language.
16. You are commencing to study Arithmetic; and you can read and write in Arithmetic only as you learn the Alphabet and Language of Arithmetic. But little time will be required for this purpose.
