. My idealed John Bullesses . my English lessons. However, theJohn Bullesses have taught me many English then I used to make awful mistakes. Forinstance, when I heard first time the people saying Great Scott 1 I thought that meant one who hastaken too much whisky ! The other day a newly-arrived Japanese wasasking the meaning of Bob. I said, It is a quitenew word since the African War. The gold piecerepresents the Sovereign, while the shilling repre-sents Lord Roberts. My John Bulless friendinterfered with a killingly amazed face, and pointedout my mistake. I lost the confidence on
. My idealed John Bullesses . my English lessons. However, theJohn Bullesses have taught me many English then I used to make awful mistakes. Forinstance, when I heard first time the people saying Great Scott 1 I thought that meant one who hastaken too much whisky ! The other day a newly-arrived Japanese wasasking the meaning of Bob. I said, It is a quitenew word since the African War. The gold piecerepresents the Sovereign, while the shilling repre-sents Lord Roberts. My John Bulless friendinterfered with a killingly amazed face, and pointedout my mistake. I lost the confidence on myEnglish from my Japanese friends I One of my Japanese friends came over here afew months ago. He said he was learning theEnglish lessons from his landlady. I said he wasvery wise to make a John Bulless as his lowered his voice and whispered me, I havelearnt a horrible thing from my landlady. Shesaid the English people eat cats! I said, Certainly not. She must be an study the English from her any JOHN BULLESS AS MT TEACHER 55 But, my dear Markino, she is English. Then she ought not to eat cats. Well, she herself does not eat cats. But herneighbours do. Every morning a man with abasket comes to our next door and makes a dis-agreeable voice, * Mew, meat! I asked my land-lady what that was. She said it was the catsmeat! I said to my friend, She is English after all,and is quite safe, to my relief! I myself often make this sort of mistake evennow. Only last year when King Edward died andwas lying in state in Westminster I wanted to gothere and see him. I went with my John Bullessfriends to Westminster by the said, We ought to go to * kew. I said,*What a hard job for us. Let us take a trainthere! One of them said, O no, let us walk ! I grumbled very much, because it seemed toofoolish to walk all way to Kew. But they neverlistened to me, and said, Kew might be quitenear. I could not make it out until they taughtme the word queue—a qui
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