Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-01-10

| proachful1y, as the other drew near. The
army want you to black their boots"
5 Immediately started off at rapid
pace, while Is said:
"Come, look alive! help that youngster
out of the gutter"
Imeekly obeyed; but when he eaught
better view of TOMS figure, he answer
ed, Indignantly:
f'He hasn't got number. don't see
why sheuld wait on him any more than
the others"
"But, my dear l." murmured 8, in a
tone of cutting contempt, "you know
you divide everything"
And so saying, the crowd moved on,
16 having first ordered 2, and s to cut
away the air-ball from Tommy's waist.
At any other time Master Spratt would
have bewailed the loss, but that moment
it passed unnoticed, as he was intent up
on his new companion, who inquired of
what he was to do with this qt112ltn,-
6ered boy, the adjective being uttered
with as much. contempt as an inhabitant
of this world would throw into the term
ualettered.
"Take him to the king to be regis
tered" retorted s, and few off to answer
hasty summons from a.
"What place is this?" asked Tommy,
meekly.
Multiplication lane, and that's Rule
of-Three Market" returned his compan-
ion. "But come, now, aohGt is your num-
ber?"
Tommy felt ashamed to confess he
didn't know; he thought he'd like to be
No. 1.
"Don't you!" replied the other, nisan-
thropically. "Im l."
Cant there be another ?"
"I wish there could" retorted his
friend.
Tommy ventured to ask "Why?"
because it'd divide the work, but
nothing can't divide l."
"But what Is all this about diyision?"
inquired Tom, whose escape from the af-
ternoon lesson had led him into far
wider field of figures.
"Why, don't you know that every fig
ure may order about those that divide it?
They're his slaves. 2, and s have to
wait on 16, and Is has to wait on 80, and
they all have to wait on 64. Some Of them
may have many servants, some have but
few, but they all have me.
There was world of pathos in his
tone.
"Of course" said Tom, " divides ev-
erything."
Eyes, everything, even and 3; and
they're the hardest masters of all; they we
a deal of waiting to do; but they shift
most of it on to me- But here we are at
arithmetical progression.'
"What's that?" asked Master Spratt.
"The kings palace, of course. Stop a
moment, though" And 1 drew respect
fully back, as an elderly gentleman with
large board, on which was inscribed
492964, stopped up the doorway.
"Where are you going, l, the lndiyisl-
ble?"
grew red at the taunt; his weak point
was his indivisibility.
81 am going, o many-fgured 482964, to
the king, and bear with me this unnum-
bered boy"
4S2964 drew back his skirts to let them
pass, and the boys hurried on through
long ling of soldiers who, Tommy OBJ
served, were all uneven multiples of 5.
On his requesting an explanation OF this,
1 said:
"They're the army; all the 5's are sol
diers, and all the rs are sailors, and
where the two meet, as in S5 or 105, they
serve as marines on alternate days"
"Ohr' said Tommy and the matter
dropped.
They passed on through the outer
courts into the inner chamber, where
large and merry party were assembled.
In one corner group of prlnceses, the
very lowest of whom was at least mil
lion, were playing at "buzz, with such
rapidity and precision that Iemmy's head
SWAN with the effort of following them.
In another portion of the room little
princess Whose number terminated in
five naughts, such being the royal prerog-
ative) was doing her sums by means OF
her fathers subjects, who stood on one
anothers heads, and whirled in and out
in manner incemprehensible to ordl-
nary mortals, accustomed to the COM
paratively tame use of slate and pencil
The king reclined upon a couch, dictat-
ing new novel, entitled "Conic Sec
tions," to four secretaries at once.
"Whence comes this numberless crea'
ture? And 1, tool 1, how darest thou
intrude within the groves of arithmetical
prOgressionw
90 thou of many numbers!" answered
1, prostrating himself, "I have brought
hitner this boy who has descended on
this earth by strange conveyance, hith-
erto unknown, in order that thou, 0 most
divisible, shouldst bestow on him num-
Der and place in the royal register"
The king frowned, the secretaries fol-
lowed suit, and the unhappy sank be-
meath the glowering storm of their eyes.
''What number shall we give him?"
said the king, pensively Fetch hither
the register"
A small detachment of subjects carried
in with great difficulty 5000 volumes, and
the four secretaries set to work with a
will.
After looking for some hours, one of
the secretaries, with low bow, announc-
ed all were occupied that the last num-
ber used was SO, ,999, ,999, and that there
fore the newcomer must be 9o,000,000.
The king for one moment foamed at
the mouth; then, recovering his speech,
flew at the secretary, (710S2), and, tear
ing off his number, cried:
1.-THE traitor has dared to propose that
this stranger, this indivisible boy, shall
henceforth become of the royal family
one Of the nearest to our own personl'
Every one hooted II, ,O32, who hid be-
hind his fellow secretaries to escape the
popular storm: Co.,
other plan must be thought OF. VINO
) ever brings, before to- morrow at noon, an
t unoccupied number, not over SO, 999, 900,
| Tor this boy, shall have nought added TO
his name"
) The people shouted and withdrew but
tommy, who had never before looked on
royalty, fingered behind to stare open
mouthed at the gorgeous rooms and grand
| company.
The king continued his dictation, never
observing the absence of u, ,032 so every
fourth chapter of the novel was missing ;