diff --git a/doc/libhttplib2.rst b/doc/libhttplib2.rst
index a407bfe..82f35ca 100644
--- a/doc/libhttplib2.rst
+++ b/doc/libhttplib2.rst
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ Http Objects
    The *connection_type* is the type of connection object to use. The supplied
    class should implement the interface of httplib.HTTPConnection.
 
-   The return value is a tuple of (response, content), the first being and instance
+   The return value is a tuple of (response, content), the first being an instance
    of the :class:`Response` class, the second being a string that contains the
    response entity body.