THE QUESTION.
So tall, so stout, so firm of mien, Such eyes for looking in between, The great inspector stood ; He scanned the children, then their tasks, He looked about as one who asks, What better for their good ? The teacher stood in anxious plight, Smiling when some poor child was bright, Trembling when such was mute. One thin and weird young lad was there ; His work was bad, and he did not care, Though under that gaze acute. * Boy, ’tis idle and careless withal ! When I was your age, and not so tall, I could do the rule of three !’ The boy said, after a little space, And quietly raising his grave young face ; ‘ Please, sir, was you fed like me!’ Minnie Douglas.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XI, Issue 46, 18 November 1893, Page 431
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124THE QUESTION. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XI, Issue 46, 18 November 1893, Page 431
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