Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1910 — A Plausible Deduction. [ARTICLE]

A Plausible Deduction.

A Baltimore school teacher had encountered such a degree of ignorance on the part of one of her boys, in relation to the recorded acts of the Father of his Country, that she grew sarcastic, with a result which Shipping Illustrated records. “I wonder,” she began, “if you could tell me whether George Washington was a sailor or a soldier?” The boy grinned. "He was a soldier, all right,” he said. “How do. you know 7” the teacher challenged. "Because I saw a picture of him crossing the Delaware. Any sailor would know enough not to stand up in the boat.”