Show A joke on the professor I 1 the fort eort manros correspondent of the he philadelphia inquirer tells the following i tub joke oke ion professor fletcher superintendent antof of public Instruct instruction io rr in adiaha ha the other day miles niiles J fletcher Super lr te dent of public instruction for the state of indiana was wandering around 0 on n the beach trying to dakill kill time while awaiting the arrival of his brother from richmond I 1 vir virginia arii 1 suddenly he came upon a pla pia place ceon on the fe beach ac where the contrabands contra bands had been digging gravel out of the pits obe tobe subsequently used in pre preparing aring roads the wagons wagon had ali ail been i loaded loade Tand and hauled off and the contrabands contra bands had seat d them themselves out of sight in the gravel studiously pondering primer primers S and spelling books one of the more learned was acting as monitor acting L 0 as G says one I 1 well what does that spell asks the monitor or dunno ans answered ered cultee cuffee dat spells logalog ob wood you know rejoined the monitor tri trl triumphantly bantly after getting along 0 t through um hr ug h the column of words with various success one little contraband sang OA B E A R what do dat spell honey this was a stumper for all binds hands and the class had bad determined to skip it when hen fletcher came forward much to their sur surprise else eise and bald said that spells beak bear I 1 mats dat aias maar asked obie ofie one of the boldest of the alck fl ck 61 why itys its a great ugly black animal that lives in the ia woods yonder hi hi de bemman means a wild bease a bary bar dar and they all aughee so heartily over fletch ers bad pronunciation that be had bad to beat a asty basty retreat in order to get out of hearing of the gravel pit contrabands contra bands |