FATHER AND SON.
The Chief Inspector of School* for the .' Bristol distriot tells a rather touohing story concerning one of tfie local night schools in hia report just iseiftd. ffeJays:—•"At L night school for adults a, middle-aged m*n was found struggling manfully with a sura ' in compound long division. Tho pounds he ■* could divide, but the treatment of the* •remainder , was a mjatery that defied solution. The Inspector vtried to explail the puzzle, eventually with some success $ and then the man opened, hia heart. 'I have a boy in the iifth standard, and he om do all these things, and lie thinks I can, but I can't, and I shouldn't like for him' to know it. , "
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9515, 7 September 1896, Page 4
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FATHER AND SON.
Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9515, 7 September 1896, Page 4
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