Excerpt from Smith Introductory Arithmetic: The Little Federal Calculator; Consisting of Questions and Tables to Employ the Mind and Fingers Only; Designed Particularly to Go Before the Slate, and to Prepare for It Q. If you have three pins in one hand, and James puts two more in, how many will you have in your hand? How many are three and two then? 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.