THE SCHOOLMASTER'S PROGRESS by CAROLINE M.S. KIRKLAND
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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In this humorous story, an 18 year old young man becomes schoolmaster at a country school and becomes the innocent victim of a prank pulled upon him by a temporary female student who failed to get enough attention from him.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back short story fans to 1001 classic Classic Short Stories and Tales. |
| 0:33.8 | I've got a humorous short story for you today written by Caroline M. S Kirkland, called |
| 0:38.8 | the Schoolmaster's Progress. progress. |
| 0:45.0 | It gives us a good picture of what schools were like in the mid-19th century. |
| 0:50.0 | In some ways, they're very, very much different as society and the rules of society were also different. |
| 0:56.0 | But in many ways, they're the same as today, only without internet. |
| 1:00.6 | And now the Schoolmaster's Progress by Caroline Kirkland. |
| 1:05.0 | Master William Horner came to our village to teach school when he was about 18 years old. |
| 1:10.0 | Tall, length, straight-sided, and straight-haired, with a mouth of the most puckered and solemn |
| 1:16.9 | kind. His figure and movements were those of a puppet cut out of a shingle and jerked |
| 1:22.2 | by a string, and his address corresponded very well |
| 1:26.0 | with his appearance. |
| 1:27.9 | Never did that prim mouth give way before a laugh. |
| 1:31.0 | A faint and misty smile was the widest departure from its propriety, and this unaccustomed |
| 1:36.3 | disturbance made wrinkles in the flat skinny cheeks like those in the surface of a lake |
| 1:41.5 | after the intrusion of a stone. |
| 1:44.6 | Master Horner knew well what belonged to the pedagogical character, and that facial |
| 1:49.3 | solemnity stood high on the list of indispensable qualifications. |
| 1:54.2 | He had made up his mind before he left his father's house how he would look during the term. |
| 1:59.7 | He had not planned any smiles, knowing that he must bored round, and it was not for ordinary |
| 2:05.5 | occurrences to alter his arrangements, so that when he was betrayed into a relaxation of |
| 2:10.1 | the muscles, it was in such a sort as if he was putting his bread and butter of the The rod of power was new to him and he felt it his duty to use it more frequently than might have been thought necessary by those upon whose sense the privilege it palled. |
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