| Show her now detroit free excuses teachers who require written ex-cuses for tardiness from parents of pupils sometimes receive very amus-ing notes here are several speci-mens from a number received by a teacher in an american village dear sir please excuse james for lateness I1 kneaded him after break fust A second note reads alease for-give billy fer being tardy i was mending his pants the third goes moro into details but is none the less interest-ing mister sir my jason had to bo late ttooddaayy it is his bieness to milk our cow she is a trick cow sha kicked jase in the back ttooddaayy when he looking or thinking of her BO he his back was broke but it aint but it is black an blue and if you dont it you can seo the pane kept him late we would git red of that cow if we could this is the forth time she has kicked anse but never kicked him late be-fore so excuse him for me A girl absent for a whole day brou glit the following satisfactory ex-cuse tthheerrbfoorr mr mi dotters absents yesterday was her shoes had to be half and che had a sore her is delimit and if she is ab-sent any more you can know that it is on account of sickneesssi or something else A boy absent for half a day laid the following explanation ori his teachers desk dear sir please excuse henry he went to grandpa Dick sons fu-neral with me this forenoon I1 have been promising him for several weeks that he might if he was good and he has been real good so I1 kept my word paper is a substitute |