Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1888 — The Class in Composition. [ARTICLE]

The Class in Composition.

We are sometimes at a loss to know whether it is ignorance or cuteness that prompts the ludicrous mistakes of the “small boy” at school. Here are tAvo specimens: A schoolmaster, in a general exercise, wrote the Avord “dozen” on a blackboard, aud asked the pupils to each xvrite a sentence containing the word. He was somewhat taken aback to find on one of the papers the following unique sentence: "I dozen know my lesson.” In another exercise of the same kind the class was given the word “hominy,” and told to compose a sentence containing it. One boy handed in this sentence: “Hominy marbles have you?”