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Show The children of an infant school in Wales are taught very much by signs. The hand of the teacher sloped signifies "oblique"; the hand held flat, "horizontal"; the hand upright, "perpendicular." "perpendicu-lar." One of the Welsh bishops ' was preachinf one day in behalf of the school, when, observing several children whispering together, he held his hand upright in a warning manner, meaning thereby there-by to impose silence, on which almost the whole school, in the midst of the sermon, shouted out, "Perpendicular " |