Not So Backward
An elderly education officer, visiting a school for evacuated children, came across a very dull and backward pupil. "Why, when Mr. Chamberlain was your age," he remarked, "he was top of his class." "Yes," muttered the boy, "and when ‘ee was your age ’ee was Prime Minister."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 46, 10 May 1940, Page 43
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50Not So Backward New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 46, 10 May 1940, Page 43
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