Decimals seated round the Multiplication Table. They perform evolutions and involutions, till one is transformed by a duodenary ulcer. An escape of gas. They find the scenty meter, and measure it with a rule of three feet. They practice. They share stocks out of all proportion. Enter a herring and a half, which they decide to Pendle bury.

Music

Dramatis PersonÆ: Major C.; a miner; and a common cord. The dominant personality of the Major resolves the miner into such a dire state that he needs a dire tonic. In less than a diminished second his whole tone is raised. (Double sharp work, what?) He takes a breve rest, quavering with a minimum of divergent emotion in the effort to be natural. Eheu fugue asses! They nearly forte, but the discord was inverted by the Major’s apologiatura, which was as handsomely chromatic as his socks.

Algebra

Enter a fraction. (Censored, as too vulgar.) Problem plays and multinomial theorems are added to and subtracted from him, when a quadratic (half mulatto, half white) arrives, and removes his brackets. This reduces him to tears and lowest terms, and he is rapidly factorized. Treating the absurd with sum series-ness, he regains his expansion, permuting his functions to accord with the senary. The equation, like justice, is satisfied.

Building

The bricklayer enters an inn and pays his footing with a Flemish Bond. He takes a header through the window, and is carried off on a stretcher, being unable to keep the perpends. The template filled with trench mortar. The bricklayer on the scaffold. His last moments. He falls into a putlog hole. Tying knots in a tiebeam. The falling eaves. Eaves dropping.

Geometry

1 (Euclid I. 5.) Scene, an Isosceles triangle. Enter the two angles at the base. They build a bridge of asses. (This is unnecessary, but usual.) They have a tug-of-war. Neither can move the other. Therefore they are equal.

2 (Euclid I. 20.) Scene, a Triangle. Enter the three sides. Two of these are carrying a large grater. They are therefore greater than the other side.

3 (Euclid I. 46.) Enter a Policeman, model of rectitude, representing a given straight line. His hollowed rearward hand receives a coin. He is squared.

4 (Euclid I. 47.) Scene, a right-angled Triangle. Enter A.B., an hypotenuse. He makes his claim. Enter two other sides, Jachin and Boaz. They square up. A.B. knocks both down, proving that he is equal to both of them together.