ENGLISH LANGUAGE
By way of enlarging the children's vocabulary, our village school-teacher is in the habit of giving them a certain word and asking them to form a sentence in which that word occurs. The other day she gave the class the word "notwithstanding." There was a pause, and then a bright-faced youngster held up his hand.
"Well, what is your sentence, Tommy?" asked the teacher.
"Father wore his trousers out, but notwithstanding."
TILDA—"Pass the 'lasses."
LIZZIE (who has attended school)—"Don't say ''lasses.' Say molasses."
TILDA—"How come I say mo' 'lasses when I ain't had none yet?"