Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1894 — Not Such a Fool After All. [ARTICLE]

Not Such a Fool After All.

PbilaJelphia Record. “What is your last name?” in* * quired a teacher of a new scholar. “Peter, ma'am,’’ replied the smalt boy. ‘‘Peter.” echoed the teacher- “ What is your other name?” ‘‘Fairbanks,” responded the boy; “Then Fairbanks is your last name of course,” said the tefifeher, 'eyeing the round-eyed, vacant-faced Peter with considerable severity. “No'in.” replied the child, respectfully. “My name was Fairbanks when I was born, but mother says .they didn't name ine Peter for ’most six ’