Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — Where Was He Brought Up? [ARTICLE]

Where Was He Brought Up?

Who says there is no American language? Harper’s Magazine gives the following story as evidence that in some portions of our land a tongue is spoken that is distinctively our own. Professor F., of Harvard, tells the tale. He was at a picnic, and a ter the affair was well under way a c •■- I enter, a sturdy J ew-Englander, appeared on the scene with several planks, out of which he proceded > ; construct the dinner tables. Noth. ' ' the thickness of the planks, the IT■>■ fe-sor cha'flngly inquired why it w s necessary to use such heavy timber. “Why?” returned the carpente “Why, in order that not when dinner s half eat tables might squash and vietu’es leave us.” I It was some hours before the Profesor was able to translate this satisfactorily, but he finally discovered that it could be done.