Too Confident.
When Mr. Gladstone was a young 1 student, he met with an amusing disaster in the examination-room. It wm when he went In for his " Smalls" ait Oxford. " What books do you take up ?" th* examiner asked of him. " Tt is immaterial to me," replied Me. Gladstone. " Pray examine me in any book you like." Then the examiner grinned an n*fty and malicious grin, and produced a corrupt and crabbed chorus from one of t*» less read plays of Aristophanes, and Invited Mr. Gladstone to translate It. Ss coul_3 not do so. N*» ao* oould have done so Who had not mr**i rt before, and the result was that Mi, GJa«i#t/>oe waa ploughed for " Small*," and was mare J careful when he tried » —inn ad tima.
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3099, 15 September 1899, Page 6
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128Too Confident. Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3099, 15 September 1899, Page 6
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