"You must learn not to talk in school," he said.
I am a peaceful man, and I hate a scene. I said nothing, but I shall do nothing. If he returns he will find no difference in the school.
The bairns did talk to each other when the inspector talked to me, but when he asked for attention he got it.
I am surprised to find that his visit does not worry me; I have at last lost my fear of the terror of teaching—H.M.I.S.
XII.
I went "drumming" last night. I like the American word "drummer," it is so much more expressive than our "commercial traveller."
I made a series of postcards, and I went round the shops trying to place them. One man refused to take them up because the profits would not be large enough. As the profits work out at 41½ per cent I begin to wonder what he usually makes.