OBSERVATION.
1 Gentlemen, you do not use your faculties of observation,’ said an old professor, addressing his class. Here he poshed forward a ga’lipot containing a chemical of exceeding offensive sraell| ‘ When 1 was a student,’ he continued, * I used my sense of taste and with that he dipped his finger in the gallipot and then put his finger in his mouth. ‘ Taste it, gentlemen, taste it,’ said the professor, ‘ and exercise your perceptive faculties.’ The gallipot was pushed towards the reluctant class one by one. The students resolutely dipped their fingers into tde concoction, and with many a wry face sucked the abomination from their fingers. < Gentlemen, gentlemen,’ said the professor, f I must repeat that you do not use your faculties of observation, for had you looked more closely at what I was doing, you would have seen that the finger which I pub in my mouth was not the finger I put in the gallipot,’
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Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 204, 30 June 1893, Page 8
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158OBSERVATION. Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 204, 30 June 1893, Page 8
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