Truly ihe schoolboy essayist has at times an unconscious, humour all his own. In one of the secondary " knowledge factories" in the north Quito lately a patriotic young lady teacher eet' her ■class of boys the task of* writing an essay bearing on. "The Hero of Trafalgar " After wading through the screeds of fatuous commonplace which marked the bulk of the puerile efforts, '■ the gentle schoolma'am came across I the following gem: "Brave Nelson i took to himself a wife, and married in i 1784, after which the horo fonght many I a severe battlo." ' , . • ■ ■ ■ ■ » .
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9676, 19 October 1909, Page 4
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