SHE WAS WATCHING

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 66, 18 March 1911, Page 6

SHE WAS WATCHING

An inspector one day visited a North Island country school taught by a young woman, and in the course of the lesson said : "Now, children, I wish you to take notice of what I do and then write an account of it."

Then he stepped to the board and wrote a sentence upon it.

All the children except one wrote in effect that the inspector came into the school and wrote on the blackboard '"I love a good school."

One little girl, however, following

instructions more literally, completed the story by adding: "And then he went to the platform, sat down, played with his | watch and chain, twirled his mous- j iache, and winked at the teacher." I