SUPERFLOUS TEACHING.
There he sat—on a gate by the road' side, swinging- his legs and gazing earnestly at -the telegraph wires. For a long- while the. benevolent 010 gentleman watched him, thinking thfi man to be so.me ignorant yokel. Then he laughed softly to himself and moved towards the gate. ' 'Waiting to see a- message pass P" he-asked. The man grinned, and nodded hia [lead as though in assent. Whereupon the benevolent old gentleman scrambled to a; perch on the gate, and for the next quarter of an hour tried hard to dispel iiis companion's ignorance. "Now," he said at last, "you have a store of fresh knowledge to take back with you to the farm.""Farm?" asked the man. "What farm ?'' "Why, the farm you work on, of course." * . "But I don't work on a farm. Me and my mates," said the man, ' are telegraph linesmen, testing a new wire!"
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 744, 10 February 1915, Page 3
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150SUPERFLOUS TEACHING. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 744, 10 February 1915, Page 3
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