Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-05-28 | Page 7 | Trickster

Trickster. John H. Finley, New York's commissioner com-missioner of education, said in Albany, Al-bany, apropos of an argument on Bible Bi-ble reading in the schools: "This argument is straightforward. It doe not shift and jump and beat about tne bush. It isn't like the tricky schoolboy. " 'Which would you choose,' his teacher asked this schoolboy, 'the tenth ar the twentieth part of an apple ?' "The boy answered that he would choose the . twentieth part, and then, noting with his shifty eyes his teach-er's teach-er's frown, he" added, hastily:' ' -; " '1 don't like apples, you know.' " Washington Star.