The professor of English was noted for being very absent-minded. It was his custom to call the roll each morning before the lecture. One morning, after calling a name to which there was no response, he looked up, and, peering bver his spectacles, asked, sharply: “Who is the absent boy in the vacant chair I see before me?”
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 11, 14 March 1908, Page 60
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