NICE FELLOWS.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3084, 6 January 1879, Page 1

NICE FELLOWS.

The Dnnedin Age, of the 28th Nov»mber, says:—" A scene of a rather discreditable nature enlivened a Tillage school not very remote from the southern suburb of this city very recently. The head teacher had his ears saluted with juvenile laughter, proceeding from one of the junior apartments. Stealing softly round, be found his male assistant surrounded by a collection, of hysterical little boys and eirls, seated with a piece of chalk in his fingers before the blackboard. On the board was drawn an arithmetical problem, bearing a singular resemblance to a figure 8 with a small extra circle wiih three dots in the centre. As the master approached, he found his faithful coadjutor in a hicc»ping condition, and was greeted with the following explanation :—' Look here, old stick, isr-is—isn't it funny. I've just been draring the,sejr _ ae w—sewing missus, and the portrait's so goo —goo—good, that they'r all a-liiVfin. Do—do—don't you think it's a goo—goo —goocJ one?" It is scarcely necessary to say tt?at the assistant was dismissed, but mark ihe sequel: A new chum with a university ♦raining turns up. and is on the eye of stepi"«nK into the vacancy, *hen he is found on ac v?ral occasions in a maud, lin condition—tn/veU'"* .the thoroughfares like a ship b.^ng before a head wind. His chances are blighted. But the young man is irreptt* 810*. and Just at the happy moment wiien his opportunity of becoming a peda «?Ogue is snuited out, a providential commit** of a V*phc institution takes him by LVbe hand and appoints him to a responsible position over the heads of a large numbiW of sober, industrious, and energetic a^P/icant*. The strangest feature connected With this affair, is that the previous occupant of the office—a trustworthy, efficient, and experienced gentleman—left because certain effeminate and straightlaced committee men objected to the odor of Eau-de-Cologne. The co in mittee has evidently jumped from the fryiug pan into the fire." '.', '