Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1890 — Trials of a Back woods Teacher. [ARTICLE]

Trials of a Back woods Teacher.

| “A good many years ago when I wat a country pedagogue back in the State of Maine,” said Prof. Knowlton, of the Boys’ High School, “I was hearing my class in spelling when I gave out the word 'cuticle' to a big, lymphatic I girt Slowly she drawled out: ««*C-u-eu, ti- ti cuti, c-l-e cle, cu-tick-le.’ “I corrected her pronunciation and asked for the definition. She looked around her blankly as if in Beach foi something to spur her memory, when, after a moment or two of silence, I said: , — ; j “ ‘Why, what is it that covers youi hands and face? “Looking quickly at each hand her ; face brightened up, and she replied. *• 'Oh. yes, freckles'”— San Fran- . cisco Examiner.