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MISCOUNTING SHEEP

2016年03月12日 | 英語の本を読む

My grandson lives on a farm. In one lesson his class were asked by their teacher, "If there were twelve sheep and six of them got through a hole in the fence, how many would be left?"
"None," answered Dylan, my seven-year-old grandson.
"You don't know your arithmetic," said the teacher.
"Well, you don't know your sheep," replied Dylan. "When one goes, they all go!"

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