Equal to the Occasion.
••■ ——• The other day, when the local School Committee of an Australian up-country district were visiting a school taught by a pretty young teacher they had recently appointed, they were astounded to find the establishment "presided over by an antique female, displaying many wrinkles, a poke bonnet of the vintage of '35, and a pair of No. 10 gaiters protruding from beneath an old-fashioned dresß. "Why, bless my soul," said the chairman, when the school was dismissed, "I supposed ," "That I was a young woman," snickered the teacher, removing a huge pair of green goggles." "So I am ; that's just what's the matter. I had to leave my last school because the big boys would not mind me. They wrote me love letters instead of compositions. I didn't want any spooning here, so I just made up for fifty in the shade before-1 started in." " How does it work V "Like a charm. When one of the boys gets obstreperous I just keep him in and make him walk home with me. It moßt scares them to death." This touohing story may not be one of the saddest phases of life in the peculiar climate of Australia.
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Evening Star, Issue 7340, 12 October 1887, Page 3
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200Equal to the Occasion. Evening Star, Issue 7340, 12 October 1887, Page 3
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