Eureka Reporter | 1908-04-17 | Page 7 | Made His Meaning Clear

MADE HIS MEANING CLEAR professor professors s son translated fathers speech into the vernacular A college professor in la company with his 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 seemed somewhat em barr assed and the professors son who ho used a different vernacular though he was a student in the college to which his father was attached at tempted to straighten out the matter drawing the farmer to one side he said in a superior way the governor means that weve been having a devil of a lot of rain harper s weekly