A Warning to Fatherly Tutors.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1695, 24 July 1875, Page 6 (Supplement)

A Warning to Fatherly Tutors.

A certain Oregon Professor was a very fithorly sort of a man, particularly toward his young lady pupils. When a young lady would ask a question, he would place his hand lovingly on her head, as though she were a little child, and make considerably more fuss than was uecessary. Of course the girls got tired of this, and conspired to break him of his fatherly proclivities. One of them hit upon a plan. She fixed up a nice little pincushion, had the pins inserted so that they would stand on their heads, points upward, and then adjusted the infernal machine on the top of her head, covering it with just enough of her hair to hide it from view. This done, she left her seat during the session, walked demurely up to tbe Professor's desk, stood a moment in his august presence, and then in a meek and plaintive tone of voice she asked him for information as to whether Washington crossed the Delaware on the ice or on horseback, when he left Trenton. He raised hia hand over her head and soothingly said : ' Why my dear little child ' We'll to have end his sentence here for tho balance of the exclamation was a sort of a half howl, half whoop, which we can neither Wiite nor print. Just as he said ' child,' he lowered his hand caressingly but forcibl upon the crown ot the girl's head, and the whole surface of his extended palm felt the tickling and exhilarating influence of a couple of dozen of pin points.— Salem Statesman.