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Title: The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Hood, Thomas, 1799-1845. (from old catalog) Shepherd, Richard Herne, 1842-1895. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, J. W. Lovell
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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onsequence was, ea.h brought up a different result—nor would my practical knowledge of Practice allow me to jud^e oftheir merits. I had no res airoe but, Lavater-like, to go by Physi-ognomy, and accordin.ly selected tiie solution of the most mathe-matical-looking boy. 13ut Lavater betrayed m^. Master Wiiite, achowder-headed lout of a lad, as dull as a pig of lead, and as mulishlyobstinate as Muley Abdallah, persisted that his answer was correct,and at last a pealed to the sU;)erior authority of a Tutors Key, thathe h.id kept b. stealth in his desk. From this instant my importanceileclined, .nd the urchins evidently began to question, with some jus-tice, what right I had to rule nine, who was not competent to the Ruleof Three. By way of a diversion, I invited my pupils to a walk ; but I wish G had been mare circumstantial in his instructions before he left. Two of the boys pl-ad.d sick headaches to remain behind;and I led the resi, through ni. arithmetical failure, uiuLr very slender
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government, bv the most unfortunate route I could have chosen,—tnfact past the verv windows of their parents, who comphined after-wards that ihev walked more like bears than hoys, and that if Mr THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD, 417 G •■ hfid drawa lots for one at a raffle, he could not have been moreunfortunate in his new usher. To avoid observation, which I did not court, I led them aside into ameadow, nnd pulling out a volume of Paradise Lost, left the boysto amuse themselves as they pleased. They pleased, accordingly, toget up a little boxin;j^-mati:h, a-la-Crib and Molineux—between Master\\ hite and tlie little Creole, of which I was informed only by a finalshout and a stre.-m of blood that trickled, or treacled, from the fiatnuse of the child of colour. Luckily, as I thought, he was near home,whither I sent him for washing and consolation, and in return forwhich, in the course of a quarter of an hour, while still in the field, abl.ick footman, in powder blue turned up with yellow

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