The Round Table.
• ' ' ♦.. ! — -Ti ... "We ha ,; e heard of a farmer whose son had for a long time been ostensibly studying Latin m a popular academy. The farmer not being properly satisfied with the Courso and conduct of the young hopeful, re-called ..him from Bchool, and placing him by the aide of a cart one day, thus addressed him — ; " Now Joseph, here is a fork, and there is a heap of ; manure, and a cart ; what do you call. them m Latin ? " " Forkibus, cartibus, and manunbuß." "If you don't tußev that jbrkibus pretty quickibus and pitch that maniiribus into the cavtibus, I'll break your lazy backibus." Joseph went to woikibu» forth withabus, A
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 3, 1 December 1883, Page 2
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113The Round Table. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 3, 1 December 1883, Page 2
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