The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1906-02-08
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The teacher frownsd slightly, not st u
ssndy. hatred, frsek~d.fscsd little fello'
~ho had vsntsrcd 10 sddrsss him, but I
hat for,y.fcsrth problem which be- wa
still trying TO uniarss.
I~lsh you could. Tommy. be replied
but ought 10 be able to wort this cot my
I. ELF have almost doIe IL ds rem time'
But ! believe that IN give IL W Tor IL
nlstt, snd sressle with Il again when M
bead 10 e.earer In the morning.
Gathering uptbe psprrsionl~ hicT he ha
been working. and taking the enc latnI
.Lich hn. Hay ward Owned, and ~hicl
tad been placed especially st his dispossl
he said good night.
n. left the NAtiopai Arithmetic ope
epon the table, bowsvsr, and Tommy tool
the libs rty Of reading the perpisxi1E qo's
zion through,
The problem supposed lady owning {
circular farm OF Ave hundred Acres, VIII
her house 10 ths center Out Of this farm
Ito wi.hsd TO give her 'hree daughter
lhree aqual circular isrn.s ss large n poe
-ible. with hoass 10 the center nf each
t.tsiI log The rest OF the land herself. Toe
question II Issus WAS the area Of each Of
be fouf farms after such division, and ihs
istance Of each house FROM each Of the
,thers.
II seemed to Tommy that this was .
question very unlikely to appear 10 every.
lay life, but be supposed that II had been
lnveni I'd BY the arithmstle mss ~ . sup
RENE test Of scholarship. He wondered u
nls father, who had been n schoc lmsster II
ais younger days, had Ever solved IL. Sud
isuly rome recollection. floating hszily 10
his mind, prompted him to take = candle
I'd ascend to the garret.
Here, among various wrecks Of time, WI
4 pile Of old books, which he had occasion
ally pulled over in the hope Of 6ndlpe Q
som, thing Of interest.
The rats had done the same thug, and,
perhaps on the whole, with more satisfac
ory results; but evidently they had mo-
had much use for certain thunb.worm
,opy OF the National Arithmetic. At any
-ate, Tommy found 1t comparatively in.
act.
Az he opened the book a. the miscsllan-
.ous problems folded sheet Of paper drop
,ed to the floor, and on this be found, t,
lie great joy, the solution In detail Of thai
orty fourth problem.
As be glanced over bis fathers work b.
elt pArdopable pride In the msthemstI
al ability there displayed but he wa
bliged to own that the fsure', In compar.
son with Ar. WINS looked rather scraw-
v. Tommy himself had learned to MAKE
lgures almost exactly like bis teachers.
nd 1t occurred to him to make neat copy
I his fathers solution.
This he did, after descending to thu |
ichen and securing for the purpose som'
I The brown paper which Mr.. VIM hac |
IT upon the table 1t was considerably
sst bedtime when he started for bis cham.
er, try ing to decide as he went along Il
that way he could offer his assistance 20
Q not to wound bis teachers pride.
The door Of Mr., WINS room was open,
nd Tommy, glsncDg 10, saw that the
,acher was fast asleep.
This 10 my time, he said to himself, and
epping cautiously into the room, he laid
1e paper, covered with figures, upon
BILE near the bed. Then, well pleased with
Is evenings work, he went to his own It,
G chamber, and was soon asleep.
Rather to Tommy's surprise, Mr.. Wipr
ad nothing In particular to say when b.
,ms down the next morning. He ate BIZ
reakfast with rather preoccupied air,
I'd soon started for school. without wait.
e, ss he generally did, for company.
ommy was almost disposed to think ths
'at important paper had somehow escsp-
notice, ard 1t was rot until nearly time
II recess that forenoon that bis doubts
ere dlspelled. sse
Then Mr.. VIM said, a. II suddenly recol.
citing something, "Ob, by tbs way.
,nas, have that forty fourth problem
orked out for you at last.
He handed large piece Of brown pspe,
Jonas as be spoke, adding, There, you
. ~ In, u that nvor ~ q aur i.teura Qot l |
ink that must tell you Of a rather re.
srkable sxperielc CT OF mine 10 connection
ith that problem. 10 tell the truth, the
vblem has been on my mind = good deal
the tine for the past three or four days
ID was still thinking 1t over when ]
opped ef 10 sleep last night.
Well, when | awoke this morning and
.hted my lamp, the very arst thing that
Il my eye was that problem, all worked
It On the paper that | have just given
u.
You msy we'll believe that ! was sur.
ised, vet II WAS easy to see v hat had bay-
med. The correct solution had come /,
= In sleep. and | had ritep, written !
'~n on the psper, nDd returned 20 bed
thout waking. A hAsty glance at Ibe
,urss showed me wb.re had made my
Issse. ard the whole solution was thei
sr TO the. hsven'e gone over the werk
feiuily, but sm sure that you will hno
correct.
have read Of similar instances, but Ger.
Inly hing of the kind ever happen d 10
: before. IL was . case. he coutituec,
rhAps imagining for the moment that b.
~ college professor ltsiesd Of dir
CT tcboolnsster, where the mind, after
ep came, worked on automatically, ana
ID precision that had been lacking ul-
= the disturbing ccndisieLs Of its waking
urs.
The pupils, Who bad been listening open.
,u,btc, could not make much out VI this
,t ,sstence, but ibcy did uLderslAnd that
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