Grounds of Incompatability
It used to be said of one militaryminded Wellington headmaster that if he ever saw two of his pupils walking along the street other than in step he would immediately shoot them with out the option.
Walking down Cuba Street the otic-:: night, 1 wondered how the school master would react to a case I saw A little man, not more than five feet two inches tall, was walking, in earnest conversation, with a man at least a foot taller. The big man took slow, ponderous strides, as he debated the wisdom of European polities. And the little man chapped alongside, like a Pomeranian with a Great Dane. In voluntarily, the little man carefully changed step. But as he stepped oil on the correct foot again, I could see he was doomed, doomed to take tw'j stops to the other’s one. The last I saw of him, he was still changing step, automatically, with his head raised to the other’s conversation. So perhaps the schoolmaster was wrong.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 147, 18 March 1937, Page 7
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