Category: Humour
It is not to be denied that the life of the schoolmaster is always exacting, usually tedious, and occasionally irritating. It is not to be denied that long-enduring patience, untiring perseverance, and philosophical resignation are only the first three of the many qualities es...
THE BEST SIDE.--A penny was the object in question. The children had examined its superscription--obverse and reverse, when little Polly shyly said, "I like this side best, teac...
4. CHAPTER IV.The curious workings of the child-mind are nowhere more conspicuously illustrated than in the little essays and "pieces of composition" which they are set to write. Of course ma...
5. CHAPTER V.It would be a real novelty to write a book having even the most remote reference to education without bringing this in. But lest the headline should terrify the reader with the...
2. CHAPTER II.Of course children's witticisms are always unconscious. They have taken the idiomatic quite literally: not quite caught our meaning; missed the right word in favour of another t...
3. CHAPTER III.I shall endeavour, as far as possible, to classify my collection of stories. And in pursuance of this purpose I cannot, perhaps, do better than start out with some quaint defini...
6. CHAPTER VI.There is no more universal fallacy than the firmly-rooted prejudice that finds a comment in the old tag that "Everybody's goose is a swan." How impregnably established is this c...
7. CHAPTER VII."_If the earth did not revolt it would be either all equal days or all equal nights_," is the deliberate judgment of one young geographer; and the state of mental obfuscation he...
1. CHAPTER I.It is not to be denied that the life of the schoolmaster is always exacting, usually tedious, and occasionally irritating. It is not to be denied that long-enduring patience, un...