In the course of an English lesson the teacher wrote on the blackboard: "He was bent on seeing his old school." “Now, children,” she said, “I want you to study that sentence and then write it down in your own words.” One small boy obviously did some hard thinking. Then he proudly wrote: “The sight of his old school doubled him up.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1940, Page 7
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