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Show . Not So Very Complex. A school inspector was examining a class in grammar and trying to elucidate eluci-date the complex relations of adjectives adjec-tives and nouns, by a telling example. "Now. for instance," said he, "what am I?" That was an easy question, and all the children shouted: "A man!" and then looked around triumphantly, trium-phantly, as much as to say: "Ask another." an-other." "Yes, but what else?" said the instructor. This was not so easy, but. after a pause, a bny ventured to suggest: sug-gest: "A little man." "Yes, but there is something more than that." This was a poser; but at last an infant phenomenon almost leaped from his seat in his eagerness, and cried: "Please, sir! I know, sir An ugly little man!" Golden Days, |
