Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1920 — What Johnny Meant. [ARTICLE]

What Johnny Meant.

"Next boy!” exclaimed the teacher. "Can you give a simile to the word ‘maiden’?” . "Yes, miss," responded Johnny Summers. "A maiden is like cider." “Very good. Johnny. You see, boys,” explained the teacher, who was of uncertain age and irascible “Johnny means that a maiden is sweet." ~ “Yea” broke in Johnny, "and grows sew with old age.”*