"Look at the one I got now, not as big as the smallest here, an' me payin' six dollars a month for it." "But it's furnished," Saxon reminded him.

"You see, that makes a difference." But Billy didn't see.
"I ain't much of a scholar, Saxon, but I know simple arithmetic; I've soaked my watch when I was hard up, and I can calculate interest.

How much do you figure it will cost to furnish the house, carpets on the floor, linoleum on the kitchen, and all ?" "We can do it nicely for three hundred dollars," she answered.

"I've been thinking it over and I'm sure we can do it for that." "Three hundred," he muttered, wrinkling his brows with concentration.
"Three hundred, say at six per cent .-- that'd be six cents on the dollar, sixty cents on ten dollars, six dollars on the hundred, on three hundred eighteen dollars.

Say--I'm a bear at multiplyin' by ten.