Show MADE HIS MEANING CLEAR son translated Tran father speech into the vernacular A college professor in company with hla son was enjoying a walk in the country when he met an old farmer it had been a very wet sea son and the professor thinking to start the conversation in a way that would prove interesting to the farmer remarked there has been a rather abnormal precipitation of late the farmer deemed somewhat em barr assed and the professors son who used a different vernacular though he was a student in the college to which his father was attached attempted to straighten out the matter drawing the farmer to one side be said in a superior way the governor means that weve been having a devil of a lot of rain harpers weekly |