Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1908 — English as She Is Uttered. [ARTICLE]

English as She Is Uttered.

"What Is the cabbage?” inquired the departing patron, who wished td go to the railway station from the,hotel. * “What’s the what?” exclqlmedtbe clerk, losing his clutch on the perfect English be usually banded over the counter. “JVhat’s the cabbage.? J said.”. v . “I know you did, but I do not quite, get your meanlpg.” . .. , a i ,“Oh, you don’t? You know what cabbage is. don’t you?” “I guess I’ve seen enough of It, to know. I used to live in the suburbs of Chicago.” . "Well, what Is it from here to the depot?” „ “I suppose It Is just wbat It is everywhere else—that Is, a vegetable which”— The departing patron Interrupted with violence. “Aw, say,” he protested, “you ought to be plowed under or fertilised or Something. Cabbage Is cab fare, ain’t It?”—Lippincott’s Magazine.