ELIZABETH AGED EIGHT
Education, somebody was saying the other day, has never been at so high a level before. But a doubt has crossed our minds. We walked home from school with Elizabeth aged eight, who, having been at work from nine till four had waited on longer for her music lesson and had brought back ’’er homework to do. It included
“An Essay on Archbishop Cranmer.” The essay finished, and she tired out with wrestling with the ancient cleric, we lifted her to the window to look at the Great Bear in the northern sky. "What’s the Great Bear?” said Elizabeth crossly. “Nobody ever told me anything about the stars.” The Stars or Archbishop Cranmer; which would seem to come first for Elizabeth aged eight?
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21210, 3 December 1938, Page 28 (Supplement)
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126ELIZABETH AGED EIGHT Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21210, 3 December 1938, Page 28 (Supplement)
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