EDUCATION AGAIN.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 284, 15 June 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)

EDUCATION AGAIN.

A PEEP INTO HOMEBRED'> FAMILY CIRCLE. "I understand. observed Mr Honiejoind at last to tint thorp Miss Writch. Mr. Ncedio wo ve read about has got joino dat la.st to that thore Miss Wrics the millionaire's daughter, in t::e bonds of hyphen". Hymen, dad—the bonds of Hymen" Hitei rupted young Johnny Homebred, ■uio wais honie fiom boarding-school. "I said 'hyphen,' and don't contradict me, exclaimed Mr Homebred sternly.

" Hut. it is really 'Hymen,' you know: not 'hyphen. persisted the youngster. " Oh, it is, i, itr It ain't 'hyphen,' am t it.' \\ell, all I know is that they calls the -r.so.ve> -Mr. and Mrs. XeodieW 1 lt-cli, now, snorted Mr. Homebred, indignantly. And the incident being clceod, l:e switclied off the conversation, on to his lic.v motor-tar, and described how "as we was coining down the fustlull no struck a tin-tack and punctuated."

" You mean 'punctured,' not 'punctuated/ " suggested Johnny, spryly. "1 said •punctuated/" roared old Homebred.

\ cs, you did; but the proper word is 'punctured.'

" \\ ell, 1 rovkun we made a full stop: and Oh. lor'! groaned the old man, dismally, " to think of all the money as ha> lx>L'n wasted —sheer cJiucked away—--011 that lad's eddication, and he ain't learned enough yet to know that making a full stop is punctuating. Xo more boarding-school ignorance hero, young sir. To-morrow you pust take hold ot that there plough in the, tenacre field, and you go on till I tell you to punctuate. D'ver hoar?