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Waikato Independent, Volume XXIV, Issue 3225, 29 May 1924, Page 6

A correspondent, who vows that the incident is true, says that a country school in North Auckland recently the teacher gave the children a lesson on the execution of Marv Queen of Scots, which evidently was very realistic. After the lesson (relates the Northern Advocate) the children were let out to play, and some of the boys, arming themselves with a grubber, decided to have an object lesson on the above. Shortly afterwards if was a very sorrowful lot of boys who went to the teacher leading a boy who was crying. On the teacher asking for an explanation he was told they had had an object

lesson on the beheading of Mary Queen of Scots. One of the boys had offered to sacrifice a finger in the cause, and the digit was promptly amputated. The teacher rendered first aid and then asked what had become of the missing finger. One bov answered: “ Please, sir, I have got it in my pocket to keep as a memento.”