. As thp teacher.read out to hor class a pbrtion of Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoo," she canto up the word' "eloped." "Now, which little boy," sho asked, "can tell liio what that word 'eloped' signifies?" A'dead .silence following, she explained. "It means 'ran away,' .'carried away.' Do yon underst<uid?: Well, which little boy can now. give mo a sentence with the word 'eloped' in it?" . "I can,, miss,'' answered a small boy at tho back'of the class-room. "Mr. Green's dog ' eloped .with nvy farvcr's dinner I" Thoro is a person wo do not want in our , schools —a teacher who has no belief at all, . who will willingly teach anything, who sub- . mits to confirmation to get into-a Church i Training College, or enters a Roman Catholio Training CohVo with indifforouco.—The Rey, Prebendary Bernard EojeoHs,
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 280, 7 August 1909, Page 13
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134Untitled Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 280, 7 August 1909, Page 13
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