Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1915 — In School Days. [ARTICLE]

In School Days.

When Walter Scott was a boy hie teacher asked him to give the part of speech of the word ‘with." “It’s a noun," said young Scott “You are Tory stupid” said, the teacher. “How came you to say such athingT “I got it from the Bible, sir," said the future novelist, stoutly. “There’s a that tmya “they bound Samson with withe.