THE MEAN QUANTITY.
“That is kind,” wrote the board. “We too often have splits in our School Boards; but as you have stopped, I feel sound again.”
“Feel sound! surely you can’t do that; hear it, you mean,” said Jaques.
Board.—“You mean what? Finish your sentence. Boards are generally thought extravagant, and not mean.”
Jaques.—“I don’t mean you’re mean. I mean you mean——”
Board.—“If you are doing a verb, it is—
| I mean. | not | I mean. |
| Thou meanest. | You mean.” |
Jaques.—“But I did not intend to say that you were mean or meanest; indeed I didn’t.”
Board.—“You said mean, didn’t you?”
Jaques.—“Yes.”