Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1904 — Pot and Kettle. [ARTICLE]

Pot and Kettle.

The following educational Incident takes fair rank among the humor of the age;— A young German studying in this country had received back his theme from his Instructor in English. Oil It were some notes in red Ink, which the student could not decipher. Accordingly he took it to the tutor In order that lie might not miss some Important advice. “I beg your pardon, sir,” he said, “hut I can’t make out this correction here. It’s —it’s a little hard to read.” The instructor took the theme, scowled at it critically, and then sahl r with some show of irritation,— “Why, it says, ’Write more legibly’!”