If a figure with a number of ciphers attached to it be divided by 9, the quotient will be composed of that figure only repeated as many times as there are ciphers in the dividend; with the same figure as the remainder.

Example:  9) 7000000
————
  777777 - 7

EXCUSES.

“Miss Brown,—You must stop teach my Lizzie fisical torture. She needs reading and figgers more an that. If I want her to do jumpin I kin make her jump.”


“Please let Willie home at 3 o’clock. I take him out for a little pleasure, to see his father’s grave.”


“Dear Teecher,—Please excuse John for staying home—he had the meesels to oblige his father.”