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 write if down in your own words.” One small boy obviously did some hard thinking. Then lie proudly wrote: "The sight of his old school doubled him up."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1940, Page 8
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