Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-11-05

The young idea 10 shoot who trains,
Who drills the mind by corporal painss
VINO c0dgels boys and his own brains7
The schoolmasteI
VINO teaches youth their ABC
And how to spell quite perfectly,
The schoolmaster.
Whose head Is full al Il can be
Of every kind OF ology,
VI history and phlosophy7
Who digs at tree OF knowledge root
mean the square, the cube to BOOTY
VINO feariessly plucks that trees fruitf
Who has to deal with drone and Ounce,
Inc chlld who knows not much as once?
VINO mas to bear full many affrontS?
ia The schoolmaSter.
On whom do parents thrust the work
Which In their laziness they shirk3
VINO suffers many things {1,t that hat irks
Whose head is never out of schoolf
whose O'erWOrked brain is never cool?
"nom DO the pupils oft befool2
The schoolmaster.
Who's kept in constant fear and dread7
Attend of year whose hearts like lead,
Lest ne may lose his official head7
The schoolmaster
H Whose place is sought by not few
HI III uugeS nard the Whole year through
Except lew VACATIONS? Who?
The schoolmaster
The curiosity have to show you to-day, chill
0ren, Is perhaps the most wonderful in the col
lection He beats all.
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 everv-
tnlng. This is mistake. There is one thing
ne uoes not Know. He does not know how soon
the school committee will find man who con-
trolls more votes to take his place.
The schoolmaster is not military man. but
MS principal assistant is. The name of this as
siStant Is Corporal Punishment. 1t is to be
hoped the corporal will soon be remanded to
private life.
The schOolmaster is sometimes called a tutor.
and occasionally he is called an ass. On the
Wnole, an astuter man is seldom found.
The schoOlmaster thoroughly understands the
rule OF three, but always insists upon the rule of
one. So you see his understanding is out of all
proportion to his rule.
Although the schoolmaster is ruler of the
Doys ne mas his own ruler. If he be no stick
himself, his ruler always is.
The schoolmaster is a very inquisitive person.
He is always asking questions His ia a ones
tion-able calling.
The schoolmaster can be found in all classes.
He Is also given to classifying knowledge. l
sometimes think would be in his classify could
The schoolmaster is good at figures. He
would cut pretty figure if he were not He is
the figure-head of the school. or should be: but
sometimes boy gets ahead of him.
:. He is also good at spelling He can stand a
long spell IN good situation without fiinching
He is always correcting the errors Of his M
pills, and consequently has but little time to at
tend to his own.
The schoOlmaster is not man of war, but he
often employs monitor. He would be all at sea
without his monitor. He gets the monitor to see
in his place.
0 shun misbehaving children, or the see of
the monitor shall overwheim you.
The schoolmaster teaches the A, B, C. but he
cannot make bee see
Every sort Of ology is taught by the school
master, but tautOlogy is no better coming from
MIN than from anybody else.
In school of young rascals the schoolmaster
Is always the principal.
Some schOOlmasters are actuated entirely nv
the law of love-love for their situations. Some
entirely by hate-hate 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 scholars but he also scholars
his callers.
used to wonder at the schoolmaster during
my school days, but my school taze will never
feturn.-BOstoa TRANSCRIPT