A bat is seen flying after a mouse, which shelters itself under a cap, stuck full of needles. There is some mutton for dinner, and a roll to eat with it. The tub and soap shew that it is washing-day; the servants playing with the children and their doll, have forgotten to boil the cabbage and the pudding. As a compensation for this loss, a large bottle of rum is produced. By this method, it will be easy to commit to memory a long series of figures, to repeat them backwards or forwards, to name the first, fourth, fifth, eighth, etc. or to say how many fours, fives, noughts, etc. are contained in the series.
The converting of figures into letters, and making sense by the introduction of vowels, will be found applicable to many of the purposes of common life. If we purchase any articles, and would remember the measure or weight of them, and thus prevent fraud in the shop-keeper, it is only necessary to change the figures into a word or words, and connect them with some strange or ludicrous idea. Should we buy 32 yards of cloth, muslin, etc. it is easy to say, that a man brought home the cloth, and the measure is given to us: if 30 lbs of cheese, a mouse that had been gnawing the cheese, would fix the weight immediately. The number of a hackney-coach, or of
