இப்பக்கம் மெய்ப்பு பார்க்கப்பட்டுள்ளது
சபாபதி
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S. M. | Your honour need not trouble yourself. I can tell you it is wrong. | |
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F. | Hullo! I thought you said that he would give the answer in half a minute. | |
S. M. | Yes I did, but I never told your honour that he would give the correct answer. As a matter of fact you put him any question he will always give the wrong answer. Just see your honour. Multiply 5 by 9. | |
G. N. | Fourteen! | |
S. M. | Your honour sees, Quite wrong! | |
F. | (Laughing) That is why you call him a mathematical prodigy! | |
S. M. | Yes your honour. This friend was my class mate, you honour. | |
F. | Were you good at mathematics yourself? | |
S. M. | No your honour. I must say that once I got a zebra in arithmetic. | |
F. | Algebra in arithmetic! What do you mean? | |
S. M. | No, Algebra! I got—what you call-cipher. | |
F. | You mean zero. | |
S. M. | Exactly—shall we go to the next item your honour? | |
F. | Yes, please do, we have had enough of this. | |
S. M. | Next item--a Tamil song-duet. By Panchanad and Kittappa Row. | |
F. | What! punch your head and kick up a row! Did you say? | |
S. M. | Panchanad and Kittappa Row. That is the name of these two gentleman. I must tell your honour one of them has got a-water defect. | |
F. | Water defect! I do not understand. | |
S. M. | Water defect.—what we call ஜலதோஷம் in Tamil. | |
F. | You mean cold- | |
S. M. | Yes, your honour. | |
F. | Well go-on-It does not matter. I don’t understand Tamil. |
