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Every time I start telling you about one of our hikes, I say it's the craziest hike I ever took. I guess it's true, because they're all crazier than each other. If there are a lot of things and each one of them is crazier than the other, that shows they're all the craziest. If you don't believe it, you can do it by long division only I like short division better -- the shorter it is the better I like it. Even if there wasn't any arithmetic at all I'd be satisfied.
But there's one good thing about ancient history and that is we don't study it in my grade. Next term I get civilized government and French pastry or history or something or other -- I'm going to get a bicycle too. Then I'm going to have a bicycle trip and write about it.