He must really learn his table.”
Then the most surprising thing happened.
The Number Fairy took his hand and ran with him out of the house, away, away, away, to Number Land.
They met funny little Fairies everywhere with numbers all over them.
Four little Number Fairies offered him the cutest cookies with sugar upon them saying:
“Two cakes and two cakes, answer quick,
Ho, ho, do you know your arithmetic?”
Tommy shook his head and passed sadly by the cakes, but in a minute the Number Fairies offered him bananas, saying:
“Three times seven is quite a trick,
Can you do it by arithmetic?”