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 "You'd have to begin away back and learn 'em over."

"And if I hadn't even learned to write down figures correctly?"

"You'd be in a bad way."

"I'd have work to do, wouldn't I?"

"It would look so to me."

"And the time to begin it, would be as soon as I found out that I was wrong?"

"Yep."

"And if I made some mistakes, it wouldn't be so very wonderful, would it, Chet?"

"Well, I should say not."

"And if there were some problems that I couldn't seem to get the right answer to, try as hard as I would?"

"It would be a wonder if you got any of them right, just at first."

"You see," went on Bess, "I'd have not only to learn the right way; but I'd have to unlearn the wrong way."

Unlearn' is good," I said.

"Well, you know what I mean, Chet. When I would try to do a thing, the wrong way to do it would come to my mind before the right way;