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New Zealand Graphic, 6 April 1907, Page 42

Mr. Samson Biggs is a schoolmaster, whose precept and practice of the blessings of punctuality are, as a rule, faultless. Should a lad be • live minutes late in the morning, he is “hept in” ten minutes after school; if ten minutes, a penance of twenty minutes is imposed, and so on. But even Homer nods, and !o! Mr. Samson Biggs was a whole half-hour late himself one morning. Among thp pupils there was the usual smart boy. who was not slow to remind him of his .offence, nor to quote from some of his own lectures on the subject. “Yes, boys,” said Samson, when he had listened to the smart boy. “Nicholson is quite right, and, as 1 punish you, it is only fair that you should punish me. So you shall all stay and keep me in for an hour after school this afternoon!”