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unembarrassed directness, and is the funniest (genuine) boy’s
composition I think I have ever seen:
ON GIRLS.
GIRLS are very stuckup and dignefied in their maner and be have your.
They think more of dress than anything and like to play with dowls and
rags. They cry if they see a cow in a far distance and are afraid of guns.
They stay at home all the time and go to church on Sunday. They are
al-ways sick. They are al-ways funy and making fun of boys hands and
they say how dirty. They cant play marbels. I pity them poor things.
They make fun of boys and then turn round and love them. I dont
beleave they ever killed a cat or anything. They look out every nite and
say oh ant the moon lovely. Thir is one thing I have not told and that is
they al-ways now their lessons bettern boys.
From Mr. Edward Channing’s recent article in Science:
The marked difference between the books now being produced by
French, English, and American travelers, on the one hand, and German
explorers on the other, is too great to escape attention. That difference
is due entirely to the fact that in school and university the German is
taught, in the first place to see, and in the second place to understand
what he does see.
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