The Copses Nod
NGLISH is the happy hunting-ground of the howlerist;, and the things we learn-you’d be surprised! A mare’s nest means a houseful of women, Nostalgia is an incurable disease of the nose. The masculine of goase is mongoose. (Hoots, lassie! You must hail from Bonnie Scotland!) Charles Dickens wrote "The Nitwit Papers." Keats was always unhealthy, and suffered severely from the critics. (Unfortunately, it is a common complaint.) x
Asked to explain the phrase "The copses nod" from Tennyson’s "Galahad," one bright girl suggested: " The policemen are asleep." In the course of our professional lives, we poor teachers receive some hard knocks, but perhaps the hardest was contained in an essay written in a third form on " Schooldays ": "At sixteen you have finished
school, and are then able to learn something that will be of use to you in after-life..-(A SchoolMarm Looks Back," by Miss Cecil Hull, 2YA, December 13.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 131, 26 December 1941, Page 5
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152The Copses Nod New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 131, 26 December 1941, Page 5
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