As the teacher read out to her dare a portion of Sir 'Walter Scott’s ‘lvanhoe.’she earn© upon the word “eloped." “.Now, which little boy,” she asked, “can tell me what that word ‘eloped’ signifies?” A dead silence fallowing, she explained. “It means ‘ ran away,’ ‘ carried awav.’ Do you understand? Well, which little boy can now give ipe, a sentence with the word ‘eloped’ in it?” “I can, miss,” answered a small boy at the bade of the daes room. “Mr Green’s dog eloped with rays fdrver’e dimer 1” . . - r
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Evening Star, Issue 14184, 8 October 1909, Page 2
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89Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 14184, 8 October 1909, Page 2
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