Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 567
was arithmetic, he learned tomake figures. A round, blue dot stands for one. Then there were lessons in time. He had tolearn that five days make a week, four weeks makea month, and eighteen months make a year; andas all that footed up only three hundred and sixtydays, they threw in what they called… … MASTER MONTEZIMA S PARENTS TAKE HIM TO THE PRIEST AND THE TEACHER. Five of them make five, and ooooo-o (five and one)is six, and in that way it runs up to ten. If hewanted to say twenty he made a flag, and forforty he made two flags. Just imagine such a multiplication table as this :Five times four…
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