THE NEW BOY.
A country schoolmaster thus delivered himself : “ If a carpenter wants to cover a road fifteen feet wide by thirty broad with boards five feet broad by twelve long, how many boards will he need ?” The new hoy took up his hat and made for the door. “ Where are you going ?” asked the master. “To find a carpenter,” replied the boy. “He ought to know that better than any of us fellers.” Burns’ native cottage is a public-house; the spot where Walter Scott was born is occupied by a beer-shop; Coleridge’s residence at Nether Stowcy and Shelley’s at Great Marlowe are beer-shops, while Moore’s birthplace is a whiskey-shop.
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Patea Mail, 14 July 1882, Page 4
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110THE NEW BOY. Patea Mail, 14 July 1882, Page 4
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