Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


"I ain't much of a scholar, Saxon, but I know simple arithmetic;
I've soaked my watch when I was hard up, and I can calculate
interest. How much do you figure it will cost to furnish the
house, carpets on the floor, linoleum on the kitchen, and all?"


"We can do it nicely for three hundred dollars," she answered.
"I've been thinking it over and I'm sure we can do it for that."


"Three hundred," he muttered, wrinkling his brows with
concentration. "Three hundred, say at six per cent.--that'd be
six cents on the dollar, sixty cents on ten dollars, six dollars
on the hundred, on three hundred eighteen dollars. Say--I'm a
bear at multiplyin' by ten. Now divide eighteen by twelve, that'd
be a dollar an' a half a month interest." He stopped, satisfied
that he had proved his contention. Then his face quickened with a
fresh thought. "Hold on! That ain't all. That'd be the interest
on the furniture for four rooms. Divide by four. What's a dollar
an' a half divided by four?"

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