The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-04-23
SCHOOL-BOY WIT.
Extracts From Some Remarkable
Juvenile Compositions.

The first HerdTy example which
give is an extract from the essay of a
boy in the Third Standard of the school,
He was nearly thirteen years of age,
but, as the parents had for many years
succeeded in evading the compulsory
clause of the Education Act by means OF
doctors certificates" frequent remov.
ais. etc, the lad was only fit for the
above low standard. The subject fol
composition was the Childhood oil
Moses"
The lads effusiOn opens as follows:
1T was not in England where all
about little Moses happened. but in a
place what the Bible saws is Egypt.
There is big river called the Nile runs
right through the middle of it, which
overdose its banks every year reglar.
Likewise bullrushes and crockodiles."
After giving an account of TIE King s
proclamation that all Hebrew male chill
dren should be cast into the river. the
lad continues:
Now little baby boy Moses had a sis
ter about sixteen. and a father and
mother which was Jews. And Moses
mother couldn't abare to drownd her
little boy, so she made a cradle same as
they used to make arkS. Then she put
her little baby in this here cradle, and
carried it to the river, and put it on the
water amongst some bulrusheS so as it
couldn't float down. And who do you
think as it was that used to sit on the
grass all day long watching as it didn't
get loose? 1t was that there sister
Mirium what l said he had. She was a
Very good young woman and did not
mind the cold grass, because she knew
as she was in the right, and that the
King would be perhaps slain.
This wicket King had daughter. as
you would think she was. She used to
go in bathing same as boys. only she
didn't swim. She only just went in up
to about her knees. and then used to put
the water over her head down her body,
and then used to tell the other women
and her father as she had been in. The
women could not see how far she had
been in. because of the bulrushes which
you have seen on the wall.
'rOne morning she got undresst where
Mirium was sitting on the grass. and
she walked straigt in up TO her knees
to where the cradle was. When she saw
him she took him up into her arms and
ran back TO the bank shouting out as she
had found baby while she was SWIM
ming. The women all came around. and
Mirium edjed in among them. The lady
was so pleased as she had got baby.
that she didn't get dreSst till she had
settled things. But it was not hers.
because twas not brought. Only found.
And Mirium said: 'Pharoh's daugh-
ter. shall 60 and find nurse for your
and if the lady didn't go and say yes
straigt off. Then Mirium run away fast
as you, and who do you think she fetch
ed for nurse? Moseses mother, as had
had had him brought him to her.
land Pharoh's daughter said unto
her: i will actshully give you wages for
nursing this baby And so Moseses
mother nursed her own little baby with
out laughing, fear she should be found
out and not get good wages"
The essay winds up with a brief &C
count of Moses life in the royal palace.
and concludes with the sentences: This
is the childhood of Moses"
Tie answer which a child once rem
idered me,.during q physiology lesson,
rpartakes, perhaps, more CT the pathetic
than the humorous.