WHY HE COULD’NT READ.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 24, Issue 18, 7 March 1913, Page 7

WHY HE COULD’NT READ.

They were discussing the rights and wrongs of a -strike, and stout and strenuous were the arguments on either side. ‘•‘Look here ! Say I ain’t tellin’ the truth ! Look here !” said Bob, producing a newspaper and flourishing .it under Joe’s eye. But Jow ignored the proffered literature.- ‘"I don’t want to see no newspaper !” he said loftily. “Wot I knows I knows. !”

“And that ain’t much,” said Boh. ‘“Don’t want to see the ■ newspapen !” ’e don’t. Why?, ’Cos ’e can’t read. Unedicated—that’s wot ’e is !” Immediately Joseph’s ire rose. “I’m as well edicated as you, Bob,” he said, with dignity ; "but, .as I learned in a night school, o’ course I can’t read in. the daytime !”