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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1602, 20 November 1912, Page 4

At a Melbourne suburban school a lady teacher 'sent a small boy with-a. very -large jug for: some water.. In s.ome way--# boy can manage these things without ah effort —(lie large jug slipped over the small boy's" head,: .but neither fofce nor--in-genuity could - ' get-it., back-again. The alarmed teacher sent-for the boy's mother, and as tlvey were afraid to break the jug for fear of'injuring the boy. they hurried him off in a tram to the Melbourne Hospital. In the meantime the mother's remarks to-the teacher were tinged bv acidity. When the head in tlio jug bumped a- tram window, smashed it, and the conductor- insisted upon the payment of half a crown, the mother's temper rii«! many degrees Fahrenheit. ]Jnt nil this was nothing as compared with her observation? when, .the hospital* doctors lmving removed the jug, 'she discovered that the captive was not her buy.