TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

Inconsistencies in hyphenation and spelling have not been corrected. Punctuation has been silentlycorrected. A list of other corrections can be found at the endof the document.

COMIC ARITHMETIC.

A FIGURANTE.

"Go the whole figure."—Sam Slick.

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
1844.

LONDON:
R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

•  Page
• The Sign of Equality—"Who are You?" 5
• The Sign of Subtraction 6
• A Pluralist 6
• The Sacred Haltar 7
• Dividing the Chinese, a cutting Joke 7
• The Poor Curate—The Bishop 9
• A Save-all  13
• Mihi Cura Futuri 14
• A Man of many Woes 15
• The Man who takes care of No. 1 22
• "Take from" 25
• Taken in and done for 27
• "Who steals my Purse steals Trash." 28
• "Forking up." 33
• Lawyer dividing the Oyster 37
• The Lion's Share 40
• The Insolvent Trap.—"The Law binds, but the Law looses" 44
• "Blowed Puffery" 50
• "Out of Proportion" 52
• Called to Account 54
• "The nearest Way to a Man's Heart" 55
• ...