SELLING THE INSPECTOR.
A good story of juvenile precocity is told by the West Coast correspondent of the Press Attending the State school of the principal coal port of the Coast were Polly acd Jeanic , aeed twelve and ten years respectively. Daring the examination each of the scholars had to produce a map of the colony, done nt home ; but Jeanle had lost hers on her way The prospect of losing so many marks drove Jeanie to tears, which were quickly tried when her sister < ffared to oome to the rescue. When the time arrived to produce the maps, Polly sent hers up to the examiner, who awarded eight marks for it. She went back to her seat with it, scratched out her name with a penknife, and substituted that of her sister ; whereupon Jeanie, as innocently as you please, marched up to the exanrner’s desk and laid the map before him as her own production, “ Well done” was his verdict, and he gave her ten marks for It, as being better work than her sister’s. 7he examiner will not bear for a long time the last about bis keen powers of di: crimination.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1342, 15 September 1886, Page 3
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194SELLING THE INSPECTOR. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1342, 15 September 1886, Page 3
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