COM. Good-mornin’, boys and gals! Good-mornin’, Mr. Snodgrass. (Shakes hands.) Thought I’d jest drap in to examine ye, bein’ the deestrict committee, an’ see how the edification was gettin’ on. I spose ye hev ’ritin’ an’ riffentick an’ readin’ every day?
(A boy begins to draw a caricature of the visitor on black board at back.)
TEACHER. Oh, yes, yes, every day,—that is, we shall after we get fully started; but it’s rather early in the term to examine, isn’t it?
COM. No!—no!—an’ histery, an’ filoserpy, an’ quotations, an’ flirtations, an’ kerdrilles, an’ all them things.
TEACHER. Yes, yes; that is, most of them.
COM. (severely). Most on ’em, Mr. Snodgrass? Don’t ye hev ’em all?
TEACHER. Oh, yes! all you would approve of.
COM. Wal, s’pose ye call out a class and let me examine ’em. (Takes off coat and seats himself, placing his hat on floor.)
TEACHER. What will you have, geography or spelling?
COM. Wal, yeou jest hand me a spellin’-book an’ I’ll put ’em through a course o’ sprouts on that.