People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1896 — A Spell. [ARTICLE]

A Spell.

Florence’s father’s initials are A. H. S., and, while Florence knows her letters, she is not yet able to spell. The other day she came running to her mother^ “6h, mamma,” she exclaimed, “I oan spell umbrella.” “I hardly think so,” said her mother. “But I oan,” she insisted. “Very well. How do you spell it?” “A-h-s,” she said promptly. “Why, Florence,” contended the mother, “that doesn’t spell umbrella.” “Yes, but it doeß,” she urged. “I Jaw it on papa’s umbrella, and I’d like to know why it would be there if it spelled something else.”—Detroit Free Press.