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Angliholic Posted 17 years ago
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With a new-year, crisply cut length of chalk

Several hands shoot up. She knows if she answers them, someone will knock her whole point out of whack with a guess in the millions. She ignores them. With a new-year, crisply cut length of chalk, she writes in large numbers on the green slate:

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Hi,

What is a new-year chalk? And what does "crisply cut lengh of chalk" refer to? Thanks.
  

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I presume that it is the beginning of the school year, and there is new chalk, a new box of chalk, to be used for writing on the blackboard. It is a new, unused stick of chalk.

— Mister Micawber

  • I presume that it is the beginning of the school year, and there is new chalk, a new box of chalk, to be used for writing on the blackboard.
  • It is a new, unused stick of chalk.
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I presume that it is the beginning of the school year, and there is new chalk, a new box of chalk, to be used for writing on the blackboard. It is a new, unused stick of chalk.
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