“Ya-as: only they tew a’ the top.”
And the other added with an indescribable air of cunning:
“Ole Majority di’nt get many, did ’a?”
FOOTNOTES:
[22] “Mine” and “yours” in E. Anglia stand for “my house” and “your house.”
[23] Paidagogoi (see Galatians iii) were “not schoolmasters but slaves who led children to the house of the schoolmaster.”
CHAPTER XVII
CHILDREN
“Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortune more bitter: they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death.”
Bacon.
Bacon’s theory is very sound, and it is one that appeals to both inspectors and teachers. There are times when the essayist labours to be short, and becomes obscure; but here his meaning is plain, as is his cipher to the American expert: children (in school) are delightful; but if you are mentally worried, or physically in poor case, they are very trying. The work (of inspecting or teaching) takes it out of you, but it is a consolation to think that death will bring you relief.