A LITTLE GIRL'S LOGIC

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 27, 1876

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 4.

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A LITTLE GIRL'S LOGIC.

“Father, do you remember that mother asked you for two dollars this morning?”

“Yes, my child, what of it?”

“Do you remember that mother didn’t get the two dollars?”

“Yes. And I remember what little girls don’t think about.”

“What is that, father?”

“I remember that we are not rich. But you are in a brown study; what is my daughter thinking about?”

“I was thinking how much one cigar costs.”

“Why it costs ten cents—not two dollars, by a great deal.”

“But ten cents three times a day is thirty cents.”

“That’s as true as the multiplication table.”

“And there are seven days in a week.”

“That’s so, by my almanac.”

“And seven times thirty cents are two hundred and ten cents.”

“Hold on, I’ll surrender. Here, take the two dollars to your mother, and tell her that I’ll do without cigars for a week.”

“Thank you, father; but if you would only say a year, it would save more than a hundred dollars. We would all have shoes and dresses, and mother a nice bonnet and lots of nice things.”

“Well, to make my little girl happy, I will say a year.”

“Oh, that will be so nice! but wouldn’t it be about as easy to say always? Then we would have the money every year, and your lips would be much sweeter when you kiss us.”—Sel.