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Rh "Do unto others," the teacher said. . . Then suddenly stopped and scratched his head. "You may look up the rest in a book," said he. "At present it doesn't occur to me; But do it, whatever it happens to be."

"And now," said the teacher, "the day's task brings Consideration of practical things. If a man makes a profit of fifteen pounds On one week's takings from two milk rounds. How many . . ." And Sym went dreaming away To the sunlit lands where the field-mice play, And wrens hold revel the livelong day.

He walked in the welcoming fields alone, While from far, far away came the pedagogue's drone : "If a man makes . . . Multiply . . . Abstract nouns . . . From B take . . . Population of towns . . . Rods, poles or perches . . . Derived from Greek . . ." Oh, the hawthorn buds came out this week, And robins are nesting down by the creek.

So Sym was head of his class not once; And his aunt repeatedly dubbed him "Dunce." But "Give him a chance," said his father, Joi. "His head is abnormally large for a boy."