. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. A Moderate Income* Comic Annual, 1831, 4X3 THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD.* I ONCE, for a very short time indeed, had the honour of being aschoohiiaster, and was invested with the important office ofrearing the tender thou;_;ht, and teaciiing ilie vDving: idea how toshoot ; of educating in the principles of the Church, andlie-;owing the strictest attention to morals. The case was this : mv \ friend G , a graduate of Oxford, and an ingenious and wortiiy , thought proper, some months back, to establish, orenoeavour to establ
. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. A Moderate Income* Comic Annual, 1831, 4X3 THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD.* I ONCE, for a very short time indeed, had the honour of being aschoohiiaster, and was invested with the important office ofrearing the tender thou;_;ht, and teaciiing ilie vDving: idea how toshoot ; of educating in the principles of the Church, andlie-;owing the strictest attention to morals. The case was this : mv \ friend G , a graduate of Oxford, and an ingenious and wortiiy , thought proper, some months back, to establish, orenoeavour to establish, an academy for young tentlemen, in myiinm< diatt vicinity. He had already procured nine day-pupils to beginwith, wiiom he himself taught,—prudence as yet prohiuiting the em-ployment of Ushers,—when he was summoned hastily to attend upona dymg relative in Hampshire, from whom he hnd some Wcis a dilemma to poor G , who had no one to leave in charge .-r^C- O/t^^/7. A Branch Co^cb. nf his classes ; and he could not bear the idea of playing truanthimself so soon after commencing business. In his extrenut\ heapplied to me as his forlorn hope, and one forlorn enouvh ; for ii iswell knoun among my friends, that I have little Latin, and less Greek,* Ccinic /nual, 18^2. 41* THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD, and am, on every account, a worse accountant. I urged these objeo tions to G , but in vain, for he had no friend in need, learned or unlearned, within any reasonable distance ; and, as he said to com-fort me, in three or four days merely the boys could not unlearikmuch of anything. At last I gave way to his importunity. On Thursday night, hestarted from the tree of knowledge by a brunch coach ; and at nineon Friday morning, I found myself sitting at his desk in the novelcharacter of pedagogue. I am sorry to say, not one of the boys playedtruant, or was confined at home with a violent illness. There theywere, nine little mischievous wretches, gogt^lm
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