Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1894 — Recorded in the Bible. [ARTICLE]

Recorded in the Bible.

Apropos of the - opening of school, says the Boston Budget, the following story is told: Among the applicants for permit was a very young child, accompanied by his Scotch mother. The committeeman objected to granting the child requisite authority for entering school on the-gi'Ound-that ire iitd gol appear to have reached the required age for admission. The mother stoutly affirmed that the child was five years old, but could not give the year in which he was born, her memory not being a reliable one so far as dates were concerned;! still she argued that the child was old enough to go to school and should be given a permit. At last the committeeman, wishing to be assured on the point of the child’s age, ibid the mother that she would have to bring the bible containing the record of the child’s age to him before he would feel free to decide. The next day, armed with the desired authority in. the shape of a cheap edition of the testament, she triumphantly led the little fellow again into the presence of the committeeman. and handing the latter the book with the air of one who had borne down all opposition, pointed to a flyleaf on which was scrawled, “Sandy is 5 years old." The child got a permit, for there was no denying so ingenious a mother as that.