Eureka Reporter | 1908-05-01 | Page 5 | Had Done His Best

had done his best beat representative adam bede ot of min 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 the scriptural in junction to wash and be clean he returned with the chin and lower part of his face looking rather pale but his cheeks and forehead re as dirt hued as before the me children roared at his comical appear ance and when the teacher asked him why he had not cleaned his en tire face he answered I 1 washed and wiped as high up as my shirt would go