Show the schoolmaster A roll measuring about fifteen feet long containing poems hitherto unknown of herodius in beazon bambic meter has just been exhibited in the manuscript mann script department of the british museum one of the poems is entitled the schoolmaster A mother appears before the master called lam eriscus pris cus she is accompanied by her son and entreats the pedagogue to flog him within an inch of his life because the boy is the terror of her existence he has nearly mined her by playing pitch and toss he associates with the lowest characters of the town and if the is allied to spell the name of maron he tarna it into simon in fact he haa entirely got beyond aba control of his par Lampris oss therefore fetches his instrument of correction which is made of cowhide and applies it without mercy tha boy howla and promises to be good and when the schoolmaster thinks that the youth has had enough he tells the mother to keep him a close prisoner for some time to come manchester england guardian |