Unsatisfactory Arithmetic
Signed with initials “ECD” (Edward C. Dalziel)
Fun 28 (28 January 1880): 31
Parson: — “I wish to complain, Mrs. Diggins, of the conduct of your daughter at thee Sunday school to=day; it was rude in the extreme.”
Mrs. D: — “Ah, it’s what they taches her at that theer board school as dun it' yesterday she come home, as she says, “‘Mother, they are a-taching of me vulgar fraxshuns.’ What can you expex after that, Sir?”
Source: Hathi Digital Library Trust web version of a copy in the Princeton University library.