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Show "Cepatomtegoataturlng." Schoolmasters have often serious problems to solve. The following note, containing only one word, was recently recent-ly handed to a Thanet pedagogue: "Cepatomtegoataturlng." The missive was tendered by one of the boys on behalf of a neighbor's child. The schoolmaster was nonplussed for the moment But he had received too many weirdly worded notes in his time to allow this rfne to baffle him. Albeit It was not till the work of the school was over and much tobacco had been consumed that the word a last yielded Its mystery: "Kept at home to go a-tnturing." London Chronicle. |