Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1902 — Sayings of Smart Youngsters. [ARTICLE]

Sayings of Smart Youngsters.

A Boston teacher recently read to her young pupils an account of a man “who had lived for years upon the frontier." When the story was reproduced by one of the children, to her surprise it read that he had lived for some years “on his front ear!" Another teacher read that a gentleman “had occupied for some time a fine country seat.” Upon asking the children what was meant by a "country seat" a dead silence reigned till one little fellow* said, he thought he knew, and to the inquiry of the teacher replied: “A milking stool!” Still another had been reading to her pupils about the rain. One, being asked to write a little story about the rain, after declaring his inability to do so, produced the following: “What docs the rain say to the dust? ‘I ant ou to you and your name Is mud!’ ”