A SCHOOLBOY'S SENTENCE.
" Horatius," said the schoolmistress to a nine-year-old boy with two imposing freckles on the knees of his pants, " Horatius, please form a sentence with the word 'toward' in it and write the sentence on the board." Horatius went to the black-board and after much scatclungs of head and friction of brain, printed with the crayon, in letters that looked like a lot of halffeathered Shanghai chickens running after a piece of dough, the following sentence: " I toward my trowsers "
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 5366, 10 December 1885, Page 2
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82A SCHOOLBOY'S SENTENCE. Grey River Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 5366, 10 December 1885, Page 2
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