A WILD MOOR SCHOOLMASTER.
1 In a wild part of Scotland a dealer in fish used to drive his cart a consider* able way inland. On one occasion, j when passing a wild moor where, although there did reside a schoolmaster, the knowledge of the inhabitants of affairs in general was not extensive, he dropped a lobster. Some children picked it up, and, wondeiing what the strange creature could be, took it, to the schoolmaster. The dominie pnt on. his “ sparticles” and, turning it over and over, examined it carefully. Weel,” at length said the oracle, “I ken maist o’ the wonderfu’ animals o’ creation, except jist twa; and those twa I never saw. They are an elephant and a turtle-dove; and so thin must be ane o’ the twa.”
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Kumara Times, Issue 596, 26 August 1878, Page 2
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