Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1890 — He “Hadn't Saw.” [ARTICLE]

He “Hadn't Saw.”

“Did you saw that wood I told you about P” asked the lady of the house of the tramp to whom she had given a dinner. “Madam, ” he replied, and a look of contempt flitted across his tawny face, “I am surprised that so good a cook and housewife as you should be so ungrammatical. Yon should say, ‘Did you see that wood P’ ‘Saw 1 is proper only in a question referring to the perfect tense. I can not work for one so uncultured, for fear I should be contaminated