NICE FELLOWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume 6, Issue 597, 11 January 1879, Page 2

NICE FELLOWS.

The Dunedin Age of November 28 says : — " A scene of a rather discreditable nature enlivened a village school not very remote from the southern suburb of this city very recently. The head teacher had his ears saluted with juvenile laughter, proceeding from one of the junior apartments. Stealing softly round, he found his male assistant surrounded by a collection of hysterical little boys and girls, seated with a piece of chalk m his fingers before the black-board. On the board was drawn an arithmetical problem, bearing a singular resemblance to a figure 8 with a small extra circle with three dots m the centre. As the master approached, he found his faithful coadjutor m a hiccuping condition, and was greeted with the following explanation : — ' Look here, old stick, is — is — isn't it funny. I've just been draring the sew — sew — sewing missus and the portrait's so goo — goo — good, that they're all a larfin. Do— do don't you think it's a goo — goo — good one ? ' It is scarcely necessary to say that this assistant was dismissed, but mark the sequel : A new chum, with a University training, turns up, and is on the eve of stepping into the vacancy, when he is found m maudlin condition— travelling the thoroughfare like a ship beating before the wind. His chances are blighted. But the young is irrepressible, and just at the happy moment when his opportunity of becoming a pedagogue is snuffed out, a providential committee of a public institution takes him by the hand, and appoints him to a responsible position over the heads of a large number of sober, industrious, and energetic applicants. The strangest feature connected with this affair, is that the previous occupant to the office — a trustworthy, efficient, and experienced gentleman — left because certain effeminate and straight-laced committeemen objected to the odor of Eau-de-Cologne. The committee has evidently juniped from the frying-pan into the fire."