ZEALOUS GUESSING.
Few of the struggles of life are more agonising- than those of the schoolboy who has no idea of what is expected of him, but determines to do his best. His frantic efforts to meet the teacher’s suggestions half-way are simply heroic. In teaching- his boys the composition of sentences, an English schoolmaster said to them : “If I ask yon, - What have lin my hand ? ’ you must not answer ‘ Chalk,’ but make a full sentence, and say, ‘ You have chalk in yoiu hand.’ How, we will go on. What have lon my feet P ” t “ Boots,” came the immediate answer. “Wrong. You haven’t listened to my directions.” “ Stockings,” ventured another heedless one. “Wrong, again ; worse than ever,” wrathfully cried the master. “ Well ? ” he continued interrogatively, to a lad near'him. “Please, sir” —then he paused. Perhaps he thought his answer might seem funny, hut, convinced that it Avas right, he recklessly gasped out, “ Corns ! ”
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 6, 6 May 1893, Page 12
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