Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII THE HALF-WAY HALIBUT DIFFERENT schools teach in different ways, and no two schools are quite alike. Some turn out boys fit to be men of business; some turn out boys fit to play cricket and football; some turn out boys fit for nothing whatever. Pappa Westray's school was different from any I have ever heard of. It was a school for young kings. He had noticed that poor little kings got brought up anyhow. Even quite ragged little boys had special schools for themselves, and naughty boys had training ships, but little princes had to go anywhere they could, and their education got terribly neglected. Pappa Westray was not particular about a small boy being a prince, he allowed any lad to come to the school who wanted to be a king and be taught by him how to be a king; whether or not he went into the king business afterwards, that was his look-out. Some of Pappa Westray's pupils did and some did not, but they were all properly educated for the job, and that was something. Pappa Westray had all sorts of funny ways of getting pupils to come to the school. He did not advertise in the papers, for he knew better ways than that. For instance, he made an arrangement with the Zephyrs that any Zephyr who brought a small boy to his school should have a pound of dew-drops to eat when she liked and three yards of rainbow, double width, to make herself a blouse. That made the Zephyrs look sharp out for small boys who wanted to be kings, and they were very cunning at capturing them. Whenever the Zephyrs saw one they tried to carry him off. This very afternoon three Zephyrs had found a small boy flying his kite in some fields in the Isle of Man. They tried to lift him off his feet and had just succeeded and were dragging him along, skimming over the grass, when hi...
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