Excerpt from Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant, Improved and Enlarged: Being a Plain Practical System of Arithmetic, Adapted to the United States; With the Addition of the Practical Accountant, or Farmers' and Mechanics Best Method of Book-Keeping, for the Easy Instruction of Youth During the long period which I have devoted instruction of youth in Arithmetic, I have made use at various svstems which have just claims to scientific mer it; but the authors appear to have been deficient in an important point-the practical teacher's experience. Ther have been too sparing of examples. Especially in the first rudiments; in consequence of which, the young popil is hurried through the ground rules too fast for his capacity. T hls objection l have endeavoured to obviate in the following treatise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.