the Figure Heads shouted with scorn and danced about till the confusion was terrible. When an example was finished, the Figure Heads in it marched away but another would immediately form lines ahead so that it took them a whole hour to go two blocks.
"Oh!" groaned Pompa at last, "We'll never get through this, Kabumpo. Look at those awful fractions ahead! Can't I skip fractions?” he asked looking pleadingly at Count It Up.
"Certainly not!" said the pencilly man stroking his shiny hair, which was straight and black and grew up into a sharp point. "You shall skip nothing!"
"That gives me an idea," whispered Kabumpo huskily. "Why shouldn't we skip altogether? We're bigger than they are. Why—"
"How are you getting on?" At the sound of that hoarse, familiar voice both the Prince and Kabumpo jumped.
"You don't mind me asking, I hope?" Clinging to the high picket fence and looking anxiously through the bars was the Curious Cottabus.
"Have you found the Greatest Common Divisor yet?"
"Who's he?" asked the Elegant Elephant suspiciously.
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