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Title: The adventures of Bob White
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo), 1874-1965
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Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and company
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y one of these Bob Whiteseats twelve of those horrid worms atone meal that would be — let mesee. He wrinkled his brows. Thereare Bob and Mrs. Bob and fifteenyoung Bobs and that makes seven-teen. Now if each eats twelve, thatwill make twelve times seventeen.He put down the figures on his bitof paper and worked over them for afew minutes. That makes 204 cater-pillars for one meal, he muttered,and in one month of thirty days BOB WHITE they would eat 6120 if they only ateone meal a day. But they eat ever somany meals a day and that means—He stopped to stare at the figures onthe bit of paper with eyes roundwith wonder. Then he whistled alittle low whistle of sheer astonish-ment. No wonder Ive got a goodgarden when those fellows are atwork in it! he exclaimed. Then he sat down to watch Mrs.Bob catching cabbage butterflieswhich he knew were laying the eggswhich would hatch out into theworms that spoiled the cabbages.He counted the number she caught while she was in sight. He did the(118)
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) /I . i l.^^« •^ He counted the number of butterfliesMrs. Bob caught BOB WHITEsame thing with another of the BobWhites who was catching cucumberbeetles, and with another who washunting grasshoppers. Then he didsome more figuring on that bit o£paper. When he had finished he gotup and went straight down to thecornfield where Farmer Brown wasat work. I know now what you meantwhen you used to tell me thatfigures talk, said he. Why, theyvetold me more than I ever dreamed!Theyve told me that the BobWhites are the best friends wevegot, and that the reason that weve got the best garden anywhere (120) A LITTLE LESSON IN ARITHMETIC around is just because they havemade it so. Why, those little brownbirds are actually making money forus, and we never guessed it!

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