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Show Headmasters' Replies, Head Muster I'eabody or Grotou wiib noted for his wit. An Illiterate, mother with pronounced boclal nsplrutluns onco wrote him saying that she would like to "Inter" her turn as a scholar nt Croton. Whut the p.iiticiilnrly Insisted Insist-ed upon knowing, however, before she "Interred" darling Harold, was tho eMict foclal standing of the parents of tho boys with whom Haiold would ho thiowu lu contact. Hendmaster IVahody thus icjilled. "Dear Madam: With lelerenco to Interring yo:r bon nt (iiotou 1 wish to Hay that I should be glad to under, take tho task. If your son behaves himself well no questions will bo nsked about Ills parentage." When the snmo mother received Harold's quarterly deportment report sho sent It hack, demanding' to know what "generally good" meant. Mr Penbody replied: "According to Webster's Web-ster's Unabridged 'generally' has tho sfgnlllcanco of 'not particularly." |