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.”