Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1896 — That Good and Dull Boy. [ARTICLE]

That Good and Dull Boy.

We started him off with “Ivanhoe,” and he was graciously pleased to volunteer his opinion that it was a funny name. And for a whole month he devoted Himself for perhaps two hours a week to “Ivanhoe,” and such was his conscientiousness that we fully believe he never'skipped a word, and so great his sense of the injury which the great intellectual effort was inflicting on bis leisure that he never took a single word iu. “Well, old fellow, how is ‘lvanhoe’ getting on?” "Pretty well, thank you.” “How far have you got?” “Oh, I'Ve nearly read”—and he consults the top of the page—“l2o pages.” “And whom do you like the best?” A hasty glance at the page to see w’hat name came handiest “Oh, Wamba.” He looks so extremely woe-begone over pur cross-questioning that we make a feeble-attempt at a joke. “A little fellow-feeling, eh, my boy?” Blank gaze, p. .“You. don’t know what I mean, I suppose ?” “No.” “Well, you know what Wamba was?" “Yes,” rather dubiously. “Well, what?” “One of the chaps in the book.”— Blackwood’s Magazine.