“Look here, Jones,” he thundered, “this won’t do. These figures are a perfect disgrace to a clerk! I could get an office boy to make better figures than those, and I tell you I won’t have it! Now, look at that five, it looks just like a three. What do you mean, sir, by making such beastly figures? Explain!”
“I—er beg your pardon, sir,” suggested the trembling clerk, his heart fluttering terribly, “but—er well, you see, sir, it is three.”
“A three?” roared the manager; “why, it looks just like a five!”
[63.] Write 24 with three equal figures, neither of them being 8.
THE WRONG COLUMN.
[64.] A clerk, while posting from day book to ledger, transposed an amount by placing the pence in the shilling column and the shillings in the pence column, thereby causing an error of 9s. 2d. With what amount could he make such a mistake?
EDUCATIONAL VAGARIES.