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“Just one little story,” whispered the Tease.

“Not a single word,” said the Story-Teller.

“We filled the Question Box,” said Maude.

“Just one,” pleaded Gertrude.

“I will put on a big log,” said Charles.

“And we will all keep still,” said Fanny.

“Well, then, just one, but it must be short,” remarked he of the curious book.

“What is the story about?” asked George.

“This,” replied the Story-Teller, “is to be about Ahmes (ä‘mḕs) and Lugal (lōō‘gäl) and Chang (chang) and the way in which they wrote their numbers.”

This, then, is what the Story-Teller related about these boys of long ago: