Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1895 — Sure Enough. [ARTICLE]

Sure Enough.

A certain superintendent of schools had a way of thundering questions at the children that completely deprived them of their wits. His very presence heemed to set the pupils trembling. ' One day he called the third readci ciass to stand upon the floor, and began a promiscuous catechism upon all. thp subjects in which they were supposed to have been taught. He skipped about from arithmetic to geography, from geography to grammar, from grammar, to spelling, all in such a confusing way that if he had asked what day of the month the Fourth of July came on, half the children would have said they didn’t know. At last, pointing his finger a small, shrinking figure at the end of the.class. he shouted, “You, there! What do you understand by climate?” The answer came in a weak, scared voice: “Get up it, sir.”