Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1901 — A Lesson on Lobsters. [ARTICLE]

A Lesson on Lobsters.

The methods of public! school instruction, as applied in New York city, do not always meet the approbation of the parents of the pupils, as was evidenced the other day when a German woman of commanding figure strode into the school, and, approaching the principal, demanded: “What it is, a lobster?” The principal politely explained that a lobster was a speoies of shellfish. "Veil, how many legs has it —dis lobster?” The number of legs was stated. "Veil, I work me for a hurry, and If your teacher cannot flno better dings than to ask my boy Jakey how many legs has it. a lobster, and make him come home to bodaer his sadder mit questions, ‘What it is, a lobster?’ it is pad peesness.”—Youth’s Companion.