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What's your name?
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Lem.
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Lem, tell me,
what do you know about Cleopatra?
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Gosh, teacher, I ain't seen her.
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Of course, you ain't.
She's a historical character.
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She lived way back in the early times.
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What a time she had.
She used to fool around with snakes.
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You mean, rattlesnakes?
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These snakes didn't rattle, they crooned.
She was the Queen of Egypt.
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I seen Little Egypt once.
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They ain't related. Sit down.
By the way, what are you doing here, Pop?
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Never had time to learn reading
and writing up to now.
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Carried a musket in '61.
Fought in Chickamauga and Bull Run, I did.
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You did? That's fine.
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Any questions?
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We was doing arithmetic on the blackboard
when Miss Foster took sick.
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Arithmetic?
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I was always pretty good at figures myself.
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That will be enough of that.
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Now this example is...
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what is known as addition,
or putting two and two together.
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- Why, teacher?
- You said "Why?"
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Yes, teacher.
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That's what I thought you said,
and that's a very good question, too.
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Addition is when you take one thing
and add it to another and you get two.
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Two and two is four and five will get you 10,
if you know how to work it.
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Anyway, it all adds up in the end...
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and that, my dear young man, is addition.
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What's subtraction, teacher?
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Subtraction.
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That's very simple.
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For instance, a man has $100
and you leave him with $2.
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Boy, that's subtraction.
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I'm only gonna do this once,
so everybody pay attention.
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Eight and seven are 16 and nine are...
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31, down one.
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- That ain't right, teacher.
- What's wrong with it?