Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1898 — How They Say It Now. [ARTICLE]

How They Say It Now.

It used to be that beginners in reading were taught from the good old books about after this fashion: "See the cow. Is the cow nice? Yes, the cow nice. Can the cow run? Yes, the cow can run. Can the cow run as fast 4- ' ' *■ Y as tho horse? No, the cow canno( run as fast as tho horse.” But that is of the past. No doubt the bool s are as good and as plain, and the teaching better, now than then; but after learning the thing correctly in the school room those children who are allowed to take a post-graduate course on the streets, soon acquire a cross bet ween pigeon english and Clark street uninteUjgibility, and the above practice goes as follows: “Get onto de cow! Haint she a beaut? Sure, she’s a corker! Can she get a move on herself? You bet she can get a move on herself. Can she hump it like de boss? Nit, she ain’t in it wid de boss!”—Ex.