FUNNY MISSIVES TO TEACHERS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5656, 29 August 1896, Page 7

FUNNY MISSIVES TO TEACHERS.

Some public school teachers receive peculiar missives from time to time. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles, who has been poring over some characteristic specimens, has sent us a little selection.

The fact that some parents object to clay-modelling is illustrated by the following:—

Miss . — John keni home yesterday wid his clothes covered wid mud. He said you put him to work mixing clay when he ought to be learning to read an' write. My husband carries th' hod, an' God knows I hey enuf trouble wid his clothes in' the wash widout scraping John's coat. If he comes home like this agin I'll send him back te yo to wash his clothes. — Mrs

Here is one from a mother who objects to physical culture : —

Miss Brown, — You must stop teach my Lizzie fisical torture she needs yet readin' and figors mit sums more as that, if I want her to do juinpin' I ken make her -jump. — Mrs C. .

There are parents who never omit the "obliging" end of a note. Witness the following : —

Dear Teacher, — Pleas excus Fritz for staying home he had meesells to oblige his father.— J. B. And this : —

Dear Miss Baker, — Please excuse Rachael for being away those two days her grandmother died to oblige her mother. — Mrs Eenski.

These tell their own tales : —

Teacher, — You must excuse my little girl for not coining to school, she was sick and lade in a common dose state for tree days. — Mrs W.

In the same school a teacher received the following :

Miss , — Please let Willie home at two o'clock. I take him out for a little pleasure to see his grandfather's grave. — Mrs K.

Still another mother wrote the following:—

Miss , — Please be so kind an' knock out of Sol when he gives too much lip to oblige his mother.