This sum multiplied by twelve, the number of days lost in the year, gives sixteen dollars.

Half a dollar spent a day for twelve days makes six dollars, and six dollars added to sixteen amount to twenty-two.

Now, have I not calculated it fairly ?" "I believe you have," replied Johnson, in an altered tone.

"But I never could have believed it." "Add to this, thirteen dollars a year that you pay for oysters, and you have--" "Not so fast, if you please.

I spend no such sum as you name, in oysters." "Let us try our multiplication again," coolly remarked the friend.
"Twenty-five cents a week multiplied into fifty-two weeks, gives exactly thirteen dollars.