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S. M.
Your honour need not trouble yourself. I can tell you it is wrong.
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.