Multiplication is vexation,
Division is as bad,
The rule of Three doth trouble me,
And Practice makes me mad.
Mrs. Codman smiled. "Perhaps you will like them better as you grow better acquainted. Can you tell me how much are four times four?"
Bert went through a variety of motions in counting her fingers, and finally announced as the result of her computation, that four times four made twenty-nine.
"That is hardly right."
"I'm awful ignorant, ain't I?" asked Bert.
"Considerably so, I confess. But we shall be able to remedy that."