Answered.
A certain hard-working Board School tea* cber has a rather backward lot of boys to contend with. In connection with one of these • youngsters he related an amusing incident to the wiiter recently. - i "I was fend of Billy,"- he paid ; "he w_ae my favourite pupil. There was something in.the roguish gleam of his eye"thab captivated me. I found it next to impossible to get really angry with Billy. "One morning Billy's arithmetic was wors« tl.an usual, and I called him out in front tc give him a lesson all to himself. *; " ' Now. Billy.' said I, ' your father, I bolieve, works at the railway '£ " ' Yes. sir.' " ' Very well. Now, we'll suppose ho comes home next Friday evening with his wages and gives your mother a half-Bovoreign, a crown, a florin, and a shilling — what'would yolir mother have?' " 'A fit!' replied Billy, with a grim wnile , ' The shock 'ud be too much for her.' "
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Otago Witness, Issue 2387, 30 November 1899, Page 67
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154Answered. Otago Witness, Issue 2387, 30 November 1899, Page 67
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