A Sunday skool teacher wos giving her class the assignment for the nxt wk.

"Nxt Sunday," she said, "we r goin to tlk bout liars, and in preparation for our lesson I want u all to read the Seventeenth Chapter of Mark."

The following wk, at the beginning of da class meeting, the teacher said, "Now then, all of u who have prepared for da lesson by reading the Seventeenth Chapter of Mark, please step to the front of the room."

bout half the class rose and came forward.

"The rest of u may leave," said the teacher, "these students are the ones I want to talk to. There is no Seventeenth Chapter in the Book of Mark."