Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-02-14
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sIefilad III Leaning the Kufss

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Hefasst eT Learning the Rules.
'Drown. ny hoy. there's nothing like II.
~ letter liam French IN six weeks, he
e'sssse scn tziss work Il lnso' yourself In a
lncs,ti9. 10 ,sas you ran lsardIy say crftsnk
anything wiiss1nt fpjiowsnz be rule. Take
this he surifri selection, which recalls OR
scbooiboy days The boy stood on The
burning deck. eornnla, whence ali but be
had fed. sernicoior: TIDE flames that lit the
the battle'- wreek, comma, .hor.e around
him o'sr the aessi. perisEI' That's grand;
that's Inspiring. You have all the beautyl
and All The sentiment. and besides y5u
Functuate ~ ypa 20 along, and 70 nlingie
the artistic ard the usefu.S
Brown WIS quite taken with this new
plan for learning bow TO pnnctuafe prop
erly. He bad often felt ike 4 brother to
the fellow who wrote book without any
punctuation whatever. simply adding 10
an appendix complete HIT Of PUNCTUATION
marks, from which the reasIer congd select
and punctuate az much Or a. little as he
pleased.
The first lesson went Oh sximmircly.
Brown 80 fell into the spirit Of it that as
he walked up the street afterward be
found himself soIiloqnizing: Il wonder,
comma. II had better get thnS paregoric,
comma. isr the baby. comma, before 70
home, period Perhaps comysa'' Then be
slipped up o. piece Of banana skin and
went down fat with two exclamation.
pciSts and enough stars TO equip several
issues Of 9 "biapket Sheet
For the first time In his life be fit like
using the dash and also making dash
for the Tniscreant who threw that murder
ous peel there. He lay on the pavement
a
then got up with difficulty cnd iirnped
down the street But the magic power ii
that first lesson was still upon him. and
meeting newsboy he began, Well, com
ma. my boy, comma, have you TIE Starr
interrogation point The sharp cred lit
tie rascal stared at him curiously, and then
replied. .Com-aht Come of. When did
yer 'scape from thf 'syium.'
After pu3ctuafing the town generally
during the next two hours and getting a
crowd Of small boys at his heels, whom he
escaped by seeking refuge in an empty
school buiiding-a place the average boy
never enters IL he can help 1.-THE took
home TO his dear family a somewhat bat
tered but still large supply Of punctuation
At 2 a. m. his wife nudged him, John
John, there are burglars In the houseg'
stWhat--ahs Burglars, burglars Now
wide awake, be sprang to the floor ex-
claiming. Dearest. comma, viii defend
you, comma, even with my hearts blood
comma, If necessary, exclamation point. -
He then threw open the chamber door right
ia the face of two masked burglars, who
held pistols to his breast and demanded
ssYour money or your lifer'
With cne whirI Of his strong right arm
he dashed the pistols aside, two bullets
| perforating the hall window instead of Lis
head. as was intended With two more
whiris of that trusty arm he sent the
burglars, as surely and swiftly as one SEN
tsnce follows another In the mouth
Of a two-hundred minute speaker, out
through the window after the bullets,
remarking: There, comma, now, comma,
you can hunt yonr bullets at Jour leisure,
period. Call again, comma, and I'll show
you how to puuctuate better, comma, but
you can't put period TO my existence just
yet. period-'
Then. rushing back to mis- wife, be ex-
claimed, Joy Of my life. exclamation
point, light OF my eyes. more exclamation
points. come to my arms period" They
fell. weeping. upou each others neckA
Stars and dashes come in here, denoting .
domestic scene too sacred for the eyes and
cara of the vulgar public Washington