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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 788, 11 April 1910, Page 9

At an international football .-/match'-' played last sea-son between England and Scotland, an English enthusiast re« - peatediy kept shouting to his side, "Sit on them," until a Scotsman near by : called out "Haud your whisht, mon; ye 1 .can sit on. a rose, but ye canna'sit oa a thistle." ■-•. -. .- ....:■.. A rule that no child should bo allowed to wear party colours in school was made by Worcester Education Committee, i Ono school manager,. however, insisted on his son wearing colours, and " the chairman told the committee that he should ask. that County Council not ■ to retain as manager a gentleman who) set sohool discipline at defiance. One-, teacher, too, had absented himself'fatten or fourteen days without leave to take part in an election, and the com-', mittee would tell him he was not paid a salary to go electioneering. '.■'■'■ i '■"'■■