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Show j TOLD OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. Shrewd Answers Given by Tots In Ex-minations. Ex-minations. The word "govern" was on the board and the pupils were asked to i name derivatives tb".'t-s Governor was easy, and there we.'j many who could give such examples of its use, as, "Mr. Bates is Governor. Mr. Crane i3 Governor," but when governable and ungovernable were mentioned there was no proper example of their use offered, as the children seemed to have no acquaintance with them at all. At last one held up a hand and said with confidence, "Oh, I know teacher. Gaston is ungovernable." Gaston was the defeated candidate for Governor of Massachusetts at the recent election. On another day exercises in draw-lag draw-lag being in order, one child was told U draw a person sitting in a chair. When called nn snmo Hmo ofto- .i,. showed a sketch of a child, nr a very amall person, stanegftffstle sidtpf a c. air.-as-tall-oii ':j teat ot the" hair. "But," said the teacher, "why didn't you make this person sitting la the chair, as I told you to?" "Oh," said the child, "when you called me up 1 was just going to bend her." Boston Transcript. |