PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. CHAPTER I. A LITTLE GENERAL DISQUISITION. CHAPTER II. CHILDREN'S WITTICISMS CRITICALLY CONSIDERED. CHAPTER III. A BUDGET OF QUAINT DEFINITIONS. CHAPTER IV. "I NOW TAKE MY PEN IN HAND." CHAPTER V. THE RELIGIOUS DIFFICULTY. CHAPTER VII. LITTLE SCIENTISTS AT SEA. CHAPTER VIII. A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION. Dr. Macnamara desires to thank the Directors of the "Schoolmaster" for the right to use most of the stories which follow. He desires also to thank his old friends, the teachers up and down the country, whose anecdotes he is presuming to put into print. All rights reserved School-Room Humour BY Dr. MACNAMARA, M.P. THIRD EDITION "Faith is what makes you believe what you know to be untrue" BRISTOL J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd., Quay Street LONDON Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company Limited 1913 First Published 1905 Second Edition (enlarged) 1907 Third Edition (with picture cover) 1913 |