Woman, what _do_ you know?
What kind of a school have you been teaching ?" "None, sor.

What should I teach school for ?" "Totally without experience, as I supposed," said the judge.
"Mrs.Ferguson had a governess teach the children when I was cookin' for her." "Cooking! Ain't you a school-teacher?
What do you mean by proposing to stop cooking in order to teach school?
Why, it's preposterous." "Begorra, I came here to get the cook's place, sor, and that's all of it." "Oh, by George! I see now.

You ain't a candidate for the grammar school, after all.

You want to see Mrs.Twiddler.Maria, come down here a minute.

There's a thick-headed immigrant here wants to cook for you." And the judge picked up his paper and resumed the editorial on "The Impending Crisis." They obtained a good teacher, however, and the course of affairs in the girls' department was smooth enough; but just after the opening of the fall session there was some trouble in the boys' department.
Mr.Barnes, the master, read in the _Educational Monthly_ that boys could be taught history better than in any other way by letting each boy in the class represent some historical character, and relate the acts of that character as if he had done them himself.