Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1888 — Fertility of Resource. [ARTICLE]

Fertility of Resource.

The following took place in one of the junior departments of our public schools: The teacher was hearing a class of little fellows recite a lesson and defected one of them doing something wrong. He stopped and asked what he would do with the boy. There was silence for a while, which was broken by a little fellow, Jimmy C , who said: “Lay him over the desk.” Shortly after the teacher detected Jimmy in the same offense, and he remarked: ‘Til lay you over the desk after school.” Seme time afterward there was a great deal of laughter among the youngsters, and the teacher asked what it was all about. For some time there was no answer, but at last a little fellow said: “I’ll tell you what we are laughing at; Jimmy has put two copy-books on the place where he is going to get the licking.”— Victoria Colonist,