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 with his lips and teeth. After seeming to look at the contents of each book for a few seconds, he pushed it aside and took another.

When several minutes had been consumed in this make-believe school, Jerry announced that he had just discovered that the pupils were all at home sick with the measles and the school would be dismissed for that day. So the small horse rang the bell to conclude the school day, and this trick was at an end.

Then Jerry asked different people in the audience to give him numbers of one figure each. He repeated them carefully to Dapples, who in turn noted each by pawing with his fore-foot. He also added and subtracted in the same way.

All the time that Jerry was giving the small horse these examples in arithmetic he stood with his back to the audience, so that only the judges in the stand in front of him saw the movement of his hand that the small horse watched carefully.