7 years in childhood, sport and play, (7)
7 years in school from day to day, (14)
7 years at trade or college life, (21)
7 years to find a place and wife, (28)
7 years to pleasure’s follies given, (35)
7 years to business hardly driven, (42)
7 years for some wild-goose chase, (49)
7 years for wealth, a bootless race, (56)
7 years of hoarding for your heir, (63)
7 years in weakness spent and care, (70)
And then you die and go--you know not where.
Very many superstitious and curious ideas have been and still are
connected with all our figures. For those interested in this subject
see page 146--“How To Become Quick At Figures” (Student’s Edition).
“What’s the difference,” asked a teacher in arithmetic, “between one
yard and two yards?” “A fence,” said Tommy Yates. Then Tommy sat on
the ruler 14 times.
179. What relation is a woman to me who is my mother’s only child’s
wife’s daughter?