TEACHER HOAXED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19025, 27 May 1936, Page 15

TEACHER HOAXED

INCIDENT AT A GISBORNE SCHOOL How a kind-hearted girl teacher was hoaxed by her boy pupils, is a topic of much amusement to the remainder ol: the staff of a Gisborne school. When the school reopened, one boy had a most distressing cough, and at length the teacher could stand it no longer. She left the room, returned with a cup of warm water and a bottle of cough elixir, and gave llio lad a dose. The effect was immediately seen, and the coughing stopped. For a time all was silence. Then a perfect barrage of -coughing broke out —base coughs, treble coughs, in fact all sorts of coughs. The teacher took, no notice. The noise grew worse. The teacher ran through her mind the grounds for punishment, but it was evident that a child could not be punished for merely coughing. Meanwhile, the noise continued. She sent out for more hot water, placed the bottle of Brain well’,s One Nought One (in the table in full view of the class, and then made up doses for the children, who were meanwhile in huge glee at their unexpected luck in sipping the favourite elixir. At length the bottle was finished, and teaching resumed, but strange to say, even those who could not obtain a dose of elixir, ceased to cough. On the way home the teacher wondered whether it paid to be good-hearted, for her bottle of One Nought One had completely gone, and she had more than a suspicion that the children enjoyed the .joke hugely. Sold at half-a-erown a bottle at all leading stores and at the Pharmacy, this wonderful compound is four times as strong as the usual elixir, immediately relieves all coughs, colds and chest ailments, acts as a tonic, and is eagerly taken by both adults and children.*