Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1919 — Arid Then He Quit. [ARTICLE]

Arid Then He Quit.

A French officer was trying to learn the English language. The following is his version of our mother tongue: “When I discovered that I was quick I was fast; that if I was tied I was fast, and if I spent too freely I was fast, I was discouraged. But when I came across the sentence ‘The first shall be last and the last shall be first.’ I gave it up.”