A REPLY.
(To the Editor of the Mount Ida Chkonicle.)
Sir, doubt if any hut a veritable hedge schoolmaster could understand the meaning of ' political geography,' much less therefore could such knowledge be expected of a child of the tender years of'Thiggin ThuV friend." i\o\v, L wish io tell " Erin-go-Bragh" that 1 am no schoolmaster, neither am I the master of a school, but 1 have mastered and stored up learning enough under my skull-cap which, 1 think, will enable me to compete with himself and "Union Jack " together, and still have some to spare. I am sorry he mentioned the term " hedye schoolmaster," as it is a thing, I think, he knows nothing about. That term was used in a certain country some time ago, when a particular class .wereforbidden to educate their children as children ought to be educated. The poor schoolmaster had to take the children committed to their care oiten to the mountain side, or at the back of a hedge, and those hedge schoolmasters, in defiance of law, communicated the rudiments of lite'rature to clustering ,• holars, where Stretched on mountain fern The pupil and his teacher met Foloniously to learn. I am, &c, Tijiggin Thu.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 131, 1 September 1871, Page 3
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