“Do your pupils pay up regularly on the first of each month?” asked one of them.
“No, they do not,” was the reply; “I often have to wait weeks and weeks before I get my pay, and sometimes I don’t get it at all. You can’t well dun the parents for the money.”
“Why don’t you do as I do? I always get my money regularly.”
“How do you manage it?”
“It is very simple. For instance, I am teaching a boy French, and on the first day of the month his folks don’t send the amount due for the previous month. In that case I give the boy the following exercise to translate and write out at home:—‘I have no money. The month is up. Hast thou any money? Have not thy parents any money? I need money very much. Why hast thou brought no money this morning? Did thy father not give thee any money? Has he no money in the pocket-book of his uncle’s great aunt?’ This fetches them. Next morning that boy brings the money.”
[158.] There is a number half of which divided by 6, one-third of it divided by 4, and one-fourth of it divided by 3, each quotient will be 9. What is the number?
QUIBBLE.