On the postcard:
The teacher’s class was raw and green,
Says she “Now, what does Dogma mean?”
Then Willie stuck his hand right up,
“It means a dog that has a pup.”
Teacher – Why wasn’t you at school yesterday, Johnny?
Johnny – We’ve got a new baby at our house.
Teacher – Ah! brother or sister?
Johnny – Neither.
Teacher – W-h-a-t?
Johnny — No. Cousin.
The Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) Jul 5, 1890
On the postcard:
The teacher was asking what sun spots were,
I’ve seen ‘em said Fred, not far from here,
There’s a case of sun spots right on our street,
Where a girl got freckles and prickly heat.
School Memories.
How dear to my heart is the school I attended,
and now I remember, so distant and dim,
that boy Bill and the pin that I bended,
and carefully put on the bench under him.
And how I recall the surprise of the master
when Bill gave a yell and sprang up from the pin
so high that his bullet head smashed up the plaster above, and the schollars set up a din.
That active boy Billy, that high-leaping Billy,
that loud-shouting Billy, who sat on a pin.
The Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) Jul 5, 1890
Tags: 1890, Humor, Schoolhouse Humor
