THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD.
The following: are reported to be some of the replies given by candidates for clerkships in the Post-office Department in making, during an examination, their written statements as to the medical histories of their families or themselves :— " Father had sunstroke, and I caught it of him." " My little brother died of some funny name." " A great white cat drawed my sister's breath, and sho died of it." " Apperplecity," "paraales." " I caught tiber fever in the Hackney Road." "I had goarnders." " Burralger in the head." " Rammitanic pains." " Shortness of breadth." "Curracatic fever." " Tridigestion of the lungs." "Sister was consumpted; now she's quite well again." " Sister died of compulsion." " Tonoertina in the throat." "Pistoles on tho back."
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2483, 9 June 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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118THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2483, 9 June 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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