Mr TJogwell once a-iked Dr Johnson what he thought was best to teach, chiidijen first. "Sir," said the Doctor, "it is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you put into your breeches first. Sir, you may stand disputing which is boat to put in tirjt, but in the meantime your breech ia.bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first-, another boy has learnt them both." One of the wor.ls introduced promintly to the public ia "adumbrating." It is defined to mean the " in.iividualism «>f preliminary and precipitous prognostications, as eliminated in the irrefragibiltty of never-mY.ching an.l never-to-yield-an-iiieh rfi*-com-boberation of spontaneous combustion, whetheror not, and evincing antedduvian indivisibilities, contemporaneously elucidated by consanguihutty when sycoelephantical and scintuVlating appro xi m itoly toscieniide ebilcration..
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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 50, 24 August 1872, Page 2
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