‘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.”
