The Republican journal., 1881-12-22

Who drills the mind by corporal pains
Who cudgels boys and his own brains
The sehoolmaster.
Who teaches youth their BIC
And how to spell quite perfectly,
low to define and read Who's he
The schoolmas ter
Whose head is full as it can be
OF every kind of ology.
Of history and philosophy
The schoomaster.
Who digs at tree of knowledge root
Il mean the square. the cube to boot
W no fearlessly plucks that trees fruit
The schoomaster
Who has to deal with drone and Ounce
The child who knows not much as once
Who has TO bear full many atfronts
The schoolmaster
ON whom do parents thrust the work
Which in their laziness they shirk
mo suffers many things that irk
The schoolmaster
Whose head is never out of school
Whose oerworked brain is never cool
Whom do the pupils oft betool!
The schoolmaster
Who's kept in constant fear and dread
At end Of year whose hearts like lead
Lest he may lose his official head
The schoolmaster.
Whose place is sought BY not a few
Who drndges hard the whole year through
Except few vacations Who
The schoomaster.
The curiosity ] have to show you To-
day, children, is perhaps the most
wy n aptl II
all.
The schoolmaster, it is said, trains the
young idea how to shoot. He is not
himself given to shooting, however. He
takes more delight in the rod than The
gun
The schoolmaster is supposed to know
everything. This is mistake There
is one thing he does not know. He
does not know how soon the school
committee viii find Il man who controls
more votes. to take his place.
The schoOmaster is not military
man, but his principal assistant is The
name Of this assistant is Corporal Punish
ment. 1t is to be hoped the Corporal viii
soon be remanded to private life.
The schOOlmaster is sometimes called a
tutor and occasionally be il called an
ass. On the whole, an astuter man is
seldom found.
The schoolmaster thoroughly under
stands the rule Of three, bat alnays
insists upon the rule OF one 50 You
see bis understanding is out Of all
to his rule
Although the sCho0lmaster is a ruler
OF the boys, be has his own ruler. If he
be no stick himself, his ruler always is
The schO0lmlster is Il very inQuisitiye
person. He is always asking questions.
His is a question able calling.
The schoolmaster can be found in all
classes. He is also given to classifying
knowledge sometimes think | would
be in his classify could.
The sch0Olmaster is good at figures
He would cut a pretty figure if he We're
not. He is the figure head Of the school,
or should be; but sometimes a boy gets
ahead of him.
He is also good at spelliDg He can
stand ii long spell in a good situation
without tlinching.
He Is always correcting the errors of
his pupils, and consequently has but
little time to attend to his own
The schoolmaster is not man of
war but often employs monitor. He
would be all ut sea without bis monitor.
He gets the monitor to see in his place
o Shun mlsbehaving, children, or the
see OF the monitor shall oNerWhelm you.
The schOOlmaster teaches the 4 b C,
but he cannot make a bee see.
Every sort OF ology is taught by the
5choolmaster, but tautology is no better
coming from him than from anybody
else,
In school OF young rasca5 the school
master Is always the principal.
Some schoolmasters are actuated en-
trely by the law of love-love for their
situations. Some entirely by hate-Aate
to give them up.
The schOOlmaster loves to have callers
at his school but habit has so possessed
him, that he not only collars his school
ars, but he also scholars his callers.
| used to wonder at the schoolmaster
during my school days, but my school
daze will never return. Boston Trans
crlpt
A story is told in Michigan about
one Of the members of the Detroit
conference which is too good to keep
He was spending day in the country,
and was invited to dine. They had
chicken for dinner, OF course, much to
the grief of a little boy in the household,
who had lost his favorite hen to provide
the feast. After dinner prayer was pro-
posed and while the preacher was pray
ing poor little lonesome chicken came
under the house crying for its
absent mother. The little boy could
restrain himself no LONGER. He put bis