Norval, thinking that a visitor should ask questions, said—
“What branches do you teach?”
THE MODERN SCHOOL.
“Oh, all kinds,” answered the boy. “Growing branches, green branches, lopped branches, rotten branches, branches of the service, railway branches, railway switches, courteous boughs, sprigs of nobility, and many others. Do you twig?”
“But what things do you teach?”
“We don’t teach them at all. Putting pupils up to a thing or two is not approved of.”
“But I mean what is your division of subjects?”
“We don’t cut up subjects here; we have no anatomical class.”
“But,” said Norval, who had seen an education report in a newspaper, “do you follow any standard in your teaching?”