A MAX OREILL STORY.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 280, 31 May 1909, Page 7

A MAX OREILL STORY.

A good story of 3L Pan! Wotim, wlio, under the .pseudonym of "M;ix OMlell," wrote "John Bull and His Island" aifd other well-known skits, is told in tlio Captain. Before Ik 1 attained fame-' with his various books, M. Blouet, who was for several years. French master at St. Paul's School^ relates ho\r he- obtained his post there. After two or three earlier applicants had returned unsuccessful from their interviewwithDr Walker, who was at the time headmaster of the school, M. Blotiet's turn came. "I want,"' said the doctor, after a; few words, "A French master who can. preserve' discipline.- My last was a perfect, gentleman and a goodfellow, but. he could not keep the'j classes in order.. The- end-of it was that, after being much worried by one of the boys, the poor fellow went home and shot Himself." "Sir," replied Max O'Eell, "that is where iiiy countryman made a- little mistake. 'I should have shot the -boy." Tlie doctor rose, says M. Blouet, and grasped my haatd. "M.. Blouet," he exclaimed,, "you are mt French master!"