There's no sense to it, any way,--sixteen sheep _stood him in_ two dollars apiece.

What does that mean, I'd like to know?
He had forty sheep and twenty-five cows.

I know it all by heart; but I can't do it, and that's the whole of it.

I wish his sheep had choked to death, and his old cows run away, before I ever heard of them.
I'll go over it just once more." (Tip was back by the kitchen window now, with his slate and book.) "Let's see: twenty-five cows at thirty-four dollars apiece;" and he worked away in nervous haste, until he came to "stood him in." If he only _could_ find out what that meant, he felt sure he could do it.

If he had somebody to help him; but he hadn't.