Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1910 — Remembered His Manners. [ARTICLE]

Remembered His Manners.

Even the brightest boy in the class can be scared Into stupidity by the wrong kind of teacher. Answers relates what one such replied to his examlner. “You boy over in the corner!” cried the man behind the desk. The boy over in the corner shot up like a bolt "Answer this,” continued the examiner. “Do we eat the flesh of the whale?” “Y-y-yes, sir,” faltered the scholar. “And what,” pursued the examiner, “do we do with the bones?” “P-please, sir,” responded the boy, “we 1-leave them on the s-s-sides of our plates.”