It was Sunday morning. Peter, a seven-year-old boy, was watching TV in the room while his brother was doing his homework. Their father was watering the flowers in the garden and their mother was going out to do some shopping. At ten their mother came back with a heavy basket. Peter ran up to her. He wanted to know what his mother bought. He found a bag of oranges in it. He liked them very much and wanted to eat them. His mother stopped him. She gave five to each son and went to the kitchen. Peter ate up his oranges but his brother was busying doing his homework and didn't eat them. Suddenly the telephone rang and his brother Bill ran to answer it. Bill's friend asked him to play football with them. And when Bill talked with his friend, Peter took two oranges away and ate them. Bill found it, called Peter out and beat him behind the house. He didn't tell his parents about it.
The next morning Miss Ball taught the students subtraction. She asked Peter a question. Peter didn't listen to the lesson carefully and couldn't understand it. Miss Ball began to give him an example, "If your brother has five oranges and you take two away from him, what will the result be?" Peter thought for a moment and said, "I'll be beaten. "
