Show I 1 ENGLISH AS SHE IS GRASPED amusing incidents observed by A few days since several teachers i ir llie schools arc dialling di alling 1 together when one remarked 1 I be lievy I 1 have llie banner story for aliis week I 1 gave an object lesson with a picture of three quails crouching n bush while au 1 perched on a limb above tycin wa linking ready to pounce down upon them the picture was on aliu alert I 1 biad each of them write a short description of it und one of them described owl as sitting on n little alert well now I 1 believe 1 have one thul is belter than lint said another teacher 1 I put n listef nouns on llie buckboard and wrote under bliem plural of alesc nouns by aidlin 1 s I 1 noticed that one of hit boys dazed und alid not begin writing so I 1 clial ans the lie said why I 1 don t sec how yon can make plurals out of them nouns by 1 I liaa a ciaio alitt hardly be belu bcd by any one a tt said n one of the girls in kiy class in eu glis i handed in a paper on chaucer in which was the startling statement ihal aiu was educated in boston schools I 1 her for her source of information und found hut it was alic statement thai studied at she had heard of cambridge mass and having a cisly i that bloston ans the scat of oil culture ln the poet tp harvard speaking of authorities said a fourth ocic of kiy pupils produced a remarkable one the other day we were reviewing united stales 1 balory and one of llie gills spoke of llie severe received by general washing on in one of llie battles of the ion I 1 corrected her but slie insisted that it was in llie book and in proof of it point d lit lie words washington was crippled in his movements by the want of ammunition for his troops journal |