“M.”
“Now say them quickly, ‘d-a-m;’ what is the word?”
“Why, it’s ‘dam’; O, Mr. Brush, I heard you say that is a bad word.”
The teacher was thunderstruck and stammered:
“I didn’t think of that, but there are two kinds of ‘dam’ and this one is not a bad word. It means a bank of earth or stones or wood, that is put up to stop the flow of water.”