Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1879 — He Didn’t Pass. [ARTICLE]

He Didn’t Pass.

Last week was examination week in most of the schools, and the boy who “ passed” can easily be selected from the boy who didn’t. One of those who didn’t was on Saturday intrenching himself on Ledyard street behind a snowbank, seemingly waiting some one’s arrival, and a man who had observed his preparation inquired: “ Making ready to have some fun, bub?” “ Well, it may be fun for me, but it’ll be tough on the other fellow,” was the reply, “ Then you are expecting to have a fight ?” “ I just am that 1 The school teacher marked me down to fifty-seven because I said Russia bound Lake Erie on the west, and now when her brother comes along I’m going to bound him on all sides with the biggest licking a whiteheaded boy ever got.”— Free Preus. The Japanese house, which was a great attraction at the Exhibition, was knocked down at $l5O. The duties paid on the material of which it composed amounted to SI,OOO, L • •*■ '