ENGLISG AS SHE IS TAUGHT
ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT
In the appendix to Croker's Boswell's Johnson one finds this anecdote:
CATO'S SOLILOQUY.--One day Mrs. Gastrel set a little girl to repeat to him [Dr. Samuel Johnson] Cato's Soliloquy, which she went through very correctly. The Doctor, after a pause, asked the child: "What was to bring Cato to an end?" She said it was a knife. "No, my dear, it was not so." "My aunt Polly said it was a knife." "Why, Aunt Polly's knife MAY DO, but it was a DAGGER, my dear." He t ...