To multiply and square and add,
And what teachers did with lessons bad,
And who made spelling and what ’twas for,
And the day and hour of the next big war,
And what athletics were all about,
And where figures go when you rub them out,
And why the moon isn’t always round,
And the difference between a noise and sound,
And on a fence, how long ’twould take
To rest an hour or a dinner bake,