PREFACE. TO THE READER, OR RATHER TO THOSE WHO HESITATE IN BUYING THIS WORK.

FIGURES FOR THE MILLION. Of Arithmetic and its Importance. INTRODUCTION.

EXPLANATION OF ARITHMETICAL SIGNS AND CHARACTERS.

RULE I. NUMERATION.

RULE II. ADDITION.

RULE III. SUBTRACTION.

RULE IV. MULTIPLICATION.

RULE V. DIVISION.

RULE VI. REDUCTION.

RULE VII. PROPORTION. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE RULE.

RULE VIII. FRACTIONS.

RULE IX. INTEREST, and c.

RULE X. BILLS.

RULE XI. DECIMALS.

RULE XII. PRACTICE.

RULE XIII. BARTER BUYING AND SELLING PROFIT AND LOSS.

RULE XIV. DISCOUNT.

RULE XV. INVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION.

RULE XVI. DUODECIMALS; OR, THE MEASURING OF PAINTING,

RULE XVII. BOOK-KEEPING AND ACCOUNTS.

RULE XVIII. SOLID MEASURE.

RULE XIX. ASSURANCE INSURANCE.

RULE XX. STOCKS, FUNDS, and c.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

Inconsistencies in hyphenation and spelling have not been corrected. Punctuation has been silently corrected. A list of other corrections can be found at the end of the document.

COMIC ARITHMETIC.

"Go the whole figure."—Sam Slick.

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
1844.

LONDON:
R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

•  Page
• The Sign of Equality—"Who are You?" 5
• The Sign of Subtraction 6
• A Pluralist 6
• The Sacred Haltar 7
• Dividing the Chinese, a cutting Joke 7
• The Poor Curate—The Bishop 9
• A Save-all  13
• Mihi Cura Futuri 14
• A Man of many Woes 15
• The Man who takes care of No. 1 22
• "Take from" 25
• Taken in and done for 27
• "Who steals my Purse steals Trash." 28
• "Forking up." 33
• Lawyer dividing the Oyster 37
• The Lion's Share 40
• The Insolvent Trap.—"The Law binds, but the Law looses" 44
• "Blowed Puffery" 50
• "Out of Proportion" 52
• Called to Account 54
• "The nearest Way to a Man's Heart" 55
• A Sliding Scale 57
• "Broken Down" 59
• Fractional Signs 60
• An Ancient and Modern Mug 62
• Knocking down the Lot 71
• Done by Interest 72
• At a Premium and Discount 73
• The Old and New Principle—both with Credit 74
• The Tin-der Passion 76
• Faith and Duty 77
• The Gallipot Crane 83
• The Carpenter Woodpecker 84
• The Red-tape Snipe 85
• The Heron 86
• A Decimal Figure 89
• A Strong Tithe 90
• The Point of the Bayonet 91
• Practising at Exeter Hall.—Hulla, Boys, Hulla 97
• Practising for the Ministry 102
• Practising for the Opera 104
• Discounting for a Man formerly 112
• Measuring by the "Yard"—True fit 122
• Charles I.—A Block-head 140
• "Assurance" 146
• Mutual Assurance 150
• The World is kept up by Puff 177