CHECKMATING A SCOLD.
A village schoolmaster had done something to displease the parents of one of his pupils. On the following morning the angry mother of the lad entered the schoolroom 'during lesson time, and began to scold. The teacher knew what was coining, and called out in a tone of command, "Children, the multiplication table !" At once the whole school began to repent the table in chorus. The woman stormed and raved, while the scholars only shouted the harder, and the master quietly laughed to himself. Utterly speechless wit hanger and surprise, the woman at last went away, and the teacher was left master of the field of battle.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10390, 13 July 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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110CHECKMATING A SCOLD. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10390, 13 July 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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