Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1917 — In Boston. [ARTICLE]

In Boston.

“Now," said a Boston schoolteacher to her class in English, “can anyone give me a word ending in ’ous,’ meaning full of, as ‘dangerous,’ full of danger, and ‘hazardous,’ full of hazard?” For a moment there was a dead silenee. Then a small boy raised his hand. - “Well,” queried the teacher, “what is your word?” Then came the reply: “‘Pious, full of pie !’ Tit-Bits.