People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1897 — A Condensed Style. [ARTICLE]

A Condensed Style.

Here is a composition from a progressive schoolboy: “One day I was in the country, I saw a cow and hit her with a rock, a dog bit me, a sow chased me, I fell out of a wagon and a bee stung me, and the old gobbler flapped me, and I went down to the branch and fell in and wet my pants.” Here is a whole novel for you in seven lines.—Ex.