Figures and Facts.

Little George was asked a very simple sum. “If I had three glasses of beer on this table, and asked your father to come and drink one, how many would be left?”

“None,” came the prompt reply from Georgie.

“But you don't understand my question.” He repeated it again and again, but always received the same assurance, “None, Sir.”

“My boy, it's clear you don't know mental arithmetic.”

“But I know father,” said Georgie.

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