 | 1859 - 620 Seiten
...senses of his son, as well as his own, to the requisite rapidity : " I took a domino, the cinq-quater for instance, and laid it before him. Instead of letting...him count the points of the two numbers, I requested the boy to tell me the total at once. " « Nine,' he said. " Then I added another domino, the quatcrtray.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 618 Seiten
...senses of his son, as well as his own, to the requisite rapidity : " I took a domino, the cinq-quatcr for instance, and laid it before him. Instead of letting...him count the points of the two numbers, I requested the boy to tell me the total at once, "'Nine,' he said. " Then I added another domino, the quatertray.... | |
 | Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin - 1859 - 322 Seiten
...assistant understand the nature of the exercise we were going to learn, I took a domino, the cinq-quater for instance, and laid it before him. Instead of letting...him count the points of the two numbers, I requested the boy to tell me the total at once. « Nine," he said. Then I added another domino, the quater-tray.... | |
 | 1859 - 736 Seiten
...exercise we were going to learn, I took a domino, the cinq-quatcr for instance, and laid it hefore film. Instead of letting him count the points of the two numbers, I requested the boy to tell me the total at once. "'Nine,' he said. " Then I added another domino, the quater-tray.... | |
 | Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin - 1860 - 448 Seiten
...assistant understand the nature of the exercise we were going to learn, I took a domino, the cinq-quatre for instance, and laid it before him. Instead of letting...him count the points of the two numbers, I requested the boy to tell me the total at once. "Nine," he said. Then I added another domino, the quarter-tray.... | |
 | David Kay (F.R.G.S.) - 1888 - 378 Seiten
...acquired by great application. M. Houdin commenced to teach his son by taking " a domino, the cinq-quater for instance, and laid it before him. Instead of letting...him count the points of the two numbers, I requested the boy to tell me the total at once. 'Nine,' he said. Then I added another domino, the quater-troy.... | |
 | David Kay - 1888 - 388 Seiten
...acquired by great application. M. Houdin commenced to teach his son by taking " a domino, the cinq-quater for instance, and laid it before him. Instead of letting him count the points of the two mmbers, I requested the boy to tell me the total at once. 'Nine,' he said. Then I added another domino,... | |
 | David Kay - 1888 - 374 Seiten
...teach his son by taking " a domino, the cinq-quater for instance, and laid it before him. Try. 22 stead of letting him count the points of the two numbers, I requested the boy to tell me the total at once. 'Nine,' he said. Then I added another domino, the quater-troy.... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1907 - 314 Seiten
...assistant understand the nature of the exercise we were going to learn, I took a domino, the cinq-quatre for instance, and laid it before him. Instead of letting...him count the points of the two numbers, I requested the boy to tell me the total at once. " Nine," he said. Then I added another domino, the quarter-tray.... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1907 - 314 Seiten
...laid it before him. Instead of letting him count the points of the two numbers, I requested the boy to tell me the total at once. " Nine," he said. Then I added another domino, the quarter-tray. " That makes sixteen," he said, without any hesitation. I stopped the first lesson here... | |
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I took a domino, the cinq-quatre for instance, and laid it before him. Instead of letting him count the points of the two numbers, I requested the boy to tell me the total at once. "Nine, 
