Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1881 — “Dot Poy of Mine.” [ARTICLE]

“Dot Poy of Mine.”

One of the teachers in the pubiic schools actually received tho other day an excuse unique in its way, and written in behalf of a delinquent pupil by tfie father. No teacher could hold such an excuse not valid, even under the requirements of the new code of the Board of Education. It runs in this wise: “Mr. Teacher: Dot poy of mine vas absent do odor day veu lie shtaid out. He got von big colt mit in his neck vat make him much drouble all de vile. Please don’t give him some banishment ven he vas late mit the morniug. He voult got there shust in time every day, but he ish not himself to blame, he ish got no mudder. She vas ded ten years ago. lam this poy’s barent, by liis mudder before she vas ded. ” —New York Express.