"Where's your pencil, Bud?" the teacher
asked an American boy who had just come to school in Britain.
"I
ain't got one, Sir."
"You're in England.now, Bud. Not ain't,
haven't. I haven't got a
pencil. You haven't got a pencil. They
haven't got a pencil."
"Gee!" said Bud. "Pop said things were tough in
this country, but I
didn't know pencils were so hard to come by." |