Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1884 — The Reason a Good Little Boy Didn’t Want to Attend School. [ARTICLE]

The Reason a Good Little Boy Didn’t Want to Attend School.

“Have you been attending school regularly since I left home, Johnnie?” asked Congressman Grabe, who had come on from Washington to spend a few days with his family. “No, sir!”frankly replied the Washingtonian boy. “ Why, my boy,” said the indulgent parent; “you won’t know anything when you grow up to be a manunless you go to school now.” “Well,” replied the boy, with a satisfied air, “ I don’t want to know nothin’, I’m goiu’ to be a Congressman like you, papa, when I grow up. ”