PUTTING BILLY AWAY.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 24, Issue 17, 4 March 1913, Page 2

PUTTING BILLY AWAY.

“Where ignorance ie bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.” But where wisdom is bliss, then ’tis folly to be ignorant, as the pupils of Birchem-on-tho-Seat College know to l their cost. Their teacher was towering and terrible. He asked them impossible questions, and stormed at them when they could not tell him the answers—which they very rarely could. Pointing his cane at the College dunce, he demanded, in an awe-in-spiring. voice : “Where’s the Baltic ?” The pupil turned pale. Then he turned red. Then he opened his mouth* spluttered, and closed it again. '"Well, where is it?” came again, in accents of thunder. •"Please, sir,” blurted the pupil, tearfully, “I ain’t got it, but I saw Billy Briggs stuffin’ summat up his wesldt !”