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A visitor in a sixth grade classroom listened to the children answer questions from their teacher. She asked, "Who can recite the alphabet?"

She called on Billy, who started, "A, B, C, D, E, F, H, - J, - M --."

The teacher stopped him and asked, "Billy, why didn't you recite the whole alphabet?"

Billy answered, "I am from Kentucky."

The teacher then asked another student, Marianne, to recite the numbers from 1 to 25.

Marianne started, "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 -- 15 ---."

The teacher asked the eleven-year-old why she couldn't recite all the numbers from 1 to 25 without a mistake.

Marianne said, "I'm from Kentucky."

Then the teacher asked Charlie to recite the alphabet.

He said, "A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z."

Everyone was pleased.

"Charlie," the teacher asked, "Count from 1 to 25."

He did: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25."

Everybody clapped their hands for Charlie, a sixth-grader, too.

Now the visitor asked Charlie, who had done better than Billy or Marianne, "Charlie, where you from?"

Charlie said, "I'm from Ohio."

Then the visitor asked, "How old are you?"

Charlie said, "I am sixteen years old."