Show had done his best representative adam bede of alin desota Is credited with the story of the boy with the disreputably dirty face who was sent to the town pump by the teacher with tho the scriptural injunction to wash and be clean he returned with the chin and lower part of his face looking rather pale but his cheeks and forehead remained as dirt hued as before the children roared at his comical appearance and when the teacher asked him why he had not cleaned hin bin entire face he answered 1 I washed and wiped as high up as my shirt would go |