NOT ALWAYS BEST.
"Well, Tommie, how far have you got in arithmetic?"
"Fractions," said Tommie.
"And do you like them?"
"Well—I prefer bananas for dessert," said Tommie.
FROM THE ARITHMETIC CLASS.
"Suppose I take seventeen boys," began the teacher, "and one pie. And I divide that pie equally among them."
"Yes," said the class.
"What, Willie Robinson, will one of those pieces amount to?"