THE TEACHER'S PORK
A prominent educator in Philadelphia tells the- following story on himself :— " - In his early teaching days he had a -position in a country schoolhouse, in New Erfgland. i 4h<r people- in the neighborhood worked out their taxes by giving him board, and when- there was no vacancy & the -farmhouses he took a small room, while the neighbors sup-.phed-him worth iafad. Orie^i diay. a- young bo y came running .breathlessly toward him -s - y * if yo^ ay iike a pSrk ? ' he **T*> '"^ pa Wants ' to know ' Indeed Ido x like pork,'" the teacher replied, concluding that the very stingy father-, of this-boyxchad determined to donate some pork to hirn^ '.You- tell your father, if ; there is anything in this world ."that- I do HKe it -is pork. - . ■ Some time passed,, and .there was :nopork » forthcoming, One day he met. Jjhe boy "alone in' the school pork"?' . ' 'he Said> ' howiac out that • Oh,' replied the boy, ' the pig got well.'
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New Zealand Tablet, 6 September 1906, Page 37
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161THE TEACHER'S PORK New Zealand Tablet, 6 September 1906, Page 37
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