GIVING FULL PARTICULARS.
'■' In teaching his?; boys 'thefcomposition 'I of sentences, :el' schoolmaster said ' : to -them':,7./:, / " : ' ■"•.*•':','"lf I ,ask7 \.* What; have I got in my hand?' you must not answer /Chalk,' but compose. a ; full sentence, and say, You have (chalk, in your hand.' ' Now We will go on. What have lon my feet?" . " "Boots," was : the immediate answer from .all quarters. " J ""•"" '- -. ' ■ "Wrong. You haven't listened 7 to my directions." "Stockings," returned - another heedless one. ;:• % .-'; "Wrong again; worse than' ever," wrathfully cried the master. "Well?" he continued interrogatively, to a lad near. } •■* " '. ."'."■'•"• ' \ "Please, sir—-—-": Then he paused. Perhaps he thought his : answer might seem funny, but convinced that it was right, he gasped out, recklessly, "Corns !"
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New Zealand Tablet, 31 January 1918, Page 46
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117GIVING FULL PARTICULARS. New Zealand Tablet, 31 January 1918, Page 46
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