The Education of Hyman Kaplan

The exercise was entitled "Fifteen Common Nouns ant their Plural Forms." Mr. Parkhill came to one paper which included the following:

house....makes....houses
dog......."........dogies
libary...."........Public libary
cat.......".....Katz
Mr. Parkhill read this over several times, very thoughtfully. He decided that here was a student who might, unchecked, develop into a "problem case". It was clearly a case that called for special attention. He turned the page over and read the name. It was printed in large, firm letters with red crayon. Each was outlined in blue. Between every two letters was a star, carefully drawn, in green. The multi-colored whole spelled, unmistakably, H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N.