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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue XI, 14 March 1903, Page 761

Miss F. P. Cobtie relates the following story:—Wishing to provide the lads in her native village with some amusements in the evenings, she organised classes for learning astronomy. and used various descriptions of fruit, spread upon a kitchen table, to illustrate her lectures. Some while afterwards, meeting a former scholar, the teacher was mortified to find he had apparently forgotten all the old lessons. “Don’t you remember anything of the lectures, Andrew, the sun and moon and stars in fruit upon the t a bl e ?” Andrew suddenly brightened up. “I remember one thing, miss," he replied. “I know that Mars was a red gooseberry, for 1 ate him."