THREE R's (READIN', 'RITIN', 'RITHMETIC)



This section of a song lyric is from January 1834, pg. 257:



But when W-LK-R did proclaim, the three T's had won the game*

*In allusion to a slip he once made in announcing the game, similar to the

blunder of his countryman, when he gave as a toast, the R's, namely

_reading_, _writing_ and _arithmetic_.



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