t game is rugby there is
more fun in it than anything else I will give a description of football
the Rangers have the best men that ever stood in the football park there
is one man I know and that is Chas. Raisback and he is center and a
nother good player is Bobby M'Coll his wright wing and J. Drummond is a
nother good player I think this is all about athletic sports I have got
to say and I will never forget the good wee rangers the result was on
Saturday Rangers 2 Morton 1. Good old Rangers." Isn't it beautiful? To
the question, "With what weapon did Samson slay the Philistines?" the
correct answer has already been given, or extracted, here; but I recall
another, more ingenious, from a boy, who replied, "With the _axe_ of the
Apostles."

"What are you talking about there?" demanded a teacher, addressing
himself to the loquacious son of a railway porter. But the teacher
received no response, and was obliged to ask another lad who sat next
the delinquent, "What was George talking about?" "Please, sir, he was
saying as his father's trousers is sent down to Brighton when they gets
old, and they's made into _sugar_ there, and that's how 'tis sugar's
gone down."

Home influences appeared in the answer of a child, whose father was a
strong teetotaller, to the query, "Do you know the meaning of syntax?"
"Yes, syntax is the dooty upon spirits."

In reply to the question, "Why do we cook our food?" one child replied:
"There are five ways of cooking potatoes. We should die if we eat our
food raw." A second pupil wrote: "Food digested is when we put it into
our mouths, our teeth chews it, and our mouth drops it down into our
body. We should not eat so much bone-making food as flesh-making and
warmth-giving foods, for, if we did, we should have too many bones, and
that would make us look funny."

In answer to the question, "Mention any occupations that are injurious
to health?" one child's reply was: "Occupations which are injurious to
health are carbonic acid gas, which is impure blood." Another responded:
"A stone-mason's work is injurious, because when he is chipping, he
breathes in all the little chips, and they are taken into the lungs." A
third advanced the theory that "A boot-maker's trade is very injurious,
because they press the boots against the thorax, and therefore it
presses the thorax in, and it touches the heart, and if they do not die,
they are cripples for life."

Finally, here is an extract from an essay on