Half past eight
Bettina Hansen pretty nearly cried last night because she had to write them over so many times on the typewriter before she got them all right . '' The reading lesson was an article on corn condensed from a farm paper , and a selection from _ Hiawatha _ -- the Indian-corn myth . `` We 'll be careful , Mr. Jim , '' said Buddy . Half past eight , and only half an hour until school would officially be `` called . '' Newton Bronson was writing in aniline ink for the hectographs , such problems as these : `` If Mr. Ezra Bronson 's seed wheat carries in each 250 grains , ten cockle grains , fifteen rye grains , twenty fox-tail seeds , three iron-weed seeds , two wild oats grains , twenty-seven wild buckwheat seeds , one wild morning-glory seed , and eighteen lamb 's quarter seeds , what percentage of the seeds sown is wheat , and what foul seed ? '' `` If in each 250 grains of wheat in Mr. Bronson 's bins , 30 are cracked , dead or otherwise not capable of sprouting , what per cent , of the seed sown will grow ? '' `` If the foul seed and dead wheat amount to one-eighth by weight of the mass , what did Mr. Bronson pay per bushel for the good wheat , if it cost him $ 1.10 in the bin , and what per cent , did he lose by the adulterations and the poor wheat ? ''