Work and Play with Numbers

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Ginn and Company, 1912 - Arithmetic - 144 pages
 

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Page 22 - There was an old woman who lived In a shoe, She had so many children, she didn't know what to do. She gave them some broth without any bread, She whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
Page 8 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.
Page 14 - This little pig went to market. This little pig stayed at home. This little pig had roast beef. This little pig had none. This little pig cried, "Wee, wee!
Page 12 - Two legs sat upon three legs, With one leg in his lap ; In comes four legs, And runs away with one leg. Up jumps two legs, Catches up three legs, Throws it after four legs, And makes him bring back one leg.
Page 20 - Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them, Leave them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their tails behind them.
Page 18 - As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats, Every cat had seven kits — Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives?
Page 7 - Hickory, dickory, dock, The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, The mouse ran down. Hickory dickory dock.
Page 16 - I love sixpence, jolly little sixpence, I love sixpence better than my life; I spent a penny of it, I lent a penny of it, And I took fourpence home to my wife.
Page 15 - To be read as before. Suppose the construction to be of books : " Five books are formed by " Four books and one book. Three books and two books. Two books and three books. One book and four books." This to be followed by the repetition from memory : " Four and one are five ; three and two are five ; two and three are five ; one and four are five.
Page 11 - Two and one are three. One and two are three. Three less one is two. Three less two is one.

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