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Waipukurau Press, Volume 11, Issue 39, 12 August 1920, Page 4

i A schoolmistress had been discussing i to her class on the subject of miraculous ! happenings. At the end of her lesson I she wanted to see if the boys bad clear- : ly understood te drift of her remarks. .“Now, boys/” she said, “suppose that I gne day you were walking along the ‘street and you saw a painter fall from I a ladder, crash, down into the road, ■ alighting on the top of his head. ” ! There was an instant stir of excite- : meat in the class. “Suppose,” the teacher went on, dis- | appointingly, “you saw the painter get up quite calmly and walk up the ladder again, what would you call that?” “Well,” s r aid the teacher. “I’ll put it more st£<Lgly. Suppose that a see ond time tars man fell from the ladder headlong info the street, and rose uninjured went back to his work. WhaUwouTd you call it them?” The boys exchanged furtive glances, but there was a dead silence. ‘Miracle’ never occurred to any of them. them. “Suppose that a third time the man fell, into the street, and a third time arose to his feet and descended once more. What would you call it. them?” z But sttill the magic word eluded them At last one boy, blushing to his ears, stammeded out: P-please, miss, I should call it an—an ’abit.”