RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30880, 13 October 1965, Page 34

RANDOM REMINDER

SPRING FEVER

Boys, it has been said, will be boys, and a note from North Canterbury explaining the system used by some young men in the district to obtain the finished products of the girl’s cooking classes struck an old, faint bell. This group, apparently, travels back to school by bus after the girls have been to cooking and the boys to woodwork at a larger school. The boys open all the windows, as of habit, and will close them at the request of young ladies worried about

their hair sets, only if the jam tarts or scones or sponge cake is passed over. It is a happy and familiar procedure, productive of much giggling and gorging. But recently one 12-year-old boy in the group threw a piece of pastry out of the bus window. There is no real explanation of this conduct, and the probability is that he is a TV addict and measures everything by Graham Kerr's standards.

At all events, the culprit was summoned to the headmaster and it was a distinctly solemn occasion. The lecture was read, and

the bay was Invited to appreciate the seriousness of such misbehaviour. It was a telling homily. But when it was done the headmaster, very properly, asked the reason for such wilful waste and such improper conduct. A less chivalrous lad might well have blamed the quality of the cooking; but the guilty one searched deep into his mind for the truth. It took him a little time, but then he blurted it out. “It must be the spring which gets into me, sir" he said “I remember having the same trouble this time last year.”