Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1913 — Anyhow, Boy Had the Right Idea. [ARTICLE]

Anyhow, Boy Had the Right Idea.

An overgrown schoolboy who found English grammar entirely beyond him was given the sentence “The girl purchased a hat” to diagram. “Now, of what word is ‘hat* the object?” asked the teacher, encouragingly. "Hat is the object of girl,” stammered the youth. "Perhaps you’re right,” replied the teacher.