THE TEACHER’S AGE
Mr. Bryan’s stories are topical enough just now in view of the change in the Presidency. The teacher in an American school was trying, apparently in vain, to teach a small scholar the names of the Presidents in rotation. After repeated failures she exclaimed irritably: * Why, Johnny, when I was your age I could say the Presidents’ names forwards and backwards, and begin in the middle and go either way I’ The teacher, a somewhat elderly lady, was considerably taken aback by the prompt reply: ‘Yes; but when you were at school there wasn’t near so many Presidents!’
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New Zealand Tablet, 5 June 1913, Page 62
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101THE TEACHER’S AGE New Zealand Tablet, 5 June 1913, Page 62
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