Huhtala Homeschoolers

Today during Science Katrina was reading about James Watt and his steam engine. When she read this line: "They worked slowly, making only about fifteen strokes a minute, and they were expensive also, a single engine burning fifteen thousand dollars' worth of coal in a year. " She said, "Why did they have to BURN money??"

The literal interpretations are hilarious. I wonder how often they hear this stuff in the world and what they must think?