Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1898 — Strictly Practical. [ARTICLE]

Strictly Practical.

“What’s dat you all is studyin’?” inquired Mr. Erastus Pinkney. “ ’Rifmetlck,” replied Pickaninny Jim. “Wtrot’s dat?” “ ’Rlfmetlck,” quoted the boy, fluently, “is de science o* numbers.” “Well, las’ night I dream ob’’er bowlegged buzsard an’ er chicken wtf er glass eye.” “Spos’n yob did?” “Well, I’s gwlnter test yer education. I has er little money, an’ want* yer ter tell me whut numbers dem to de signs ot”—-Washington Star.