Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1878 — An Excuse. [ARTICLE]

An Excuse.

One teacher in the Twelfth Ward Public School received, the other day, an excuse written in belialf of a delinquent pupil by the father. It runs in this wise: “Miss Teacher—Dot poy of mine vos absent de oder day ven he sthaid out. He got one big colt in his neck vot make him much trouble all de vile. Please don’t give him some bunishment ven he vas late in de morning. He would got there shust in time every day, but he is not himself to blame; he is got no mother. She vos dead ten years ago. lam this poy’s parent by his mother before she vos dead.”