THE HALCOMBE SCHOOL.
I hear of tremendous doings at a certain railway station in the Manawatu district, when a noted pedagogue exhibited his familiarity with the noble art of self-defence, by knocking them down like nine pins right and left. There was in fact a regular shindy, and on the dominie's part, a challenge to fight anybody and everybody. Thereupon a rhymster concocted the following, and sent it on to me: — Let dogs delight to bark and bite As Dr Watts has shown, And little boys should learn to fight That they may hold their own. The dominie's school has received a large accession of pupils since his gallant display, and a special class not provided for in the ordinary free curriculum has been established in it. The boys in this class are kept closely cropped, and are fed chiefly on raw beefsteak. — Asmodeus, in the N.Z. Mail.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 89, 10 April 1883, Page 2
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148THE HALCOMBE SCHOOL. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 89, 10 April 1883, Page 2
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