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'Then your best plan would undoubtedly be to consider yourself and work for a time simply as an ordinary assistant-master. You would thus get a sound knowledge of the intricacies of the profession which would stand you in good stead when you decide to set up your own school. School-mastering is a profession, which cannot be taught adequately except in practice.
In order to get rid of an importunate suitor Nalini gave him another letter of introduction, this time to an old acquaintance named Debnath Lahiri who was head clerk in the office of Messrs. Kerr & Dunlop, one of the largest mercantile firms of Calcutta. Pulin was heartily sick of school-mastering, and the prospect of making a fortune in business filled his soul with joy.
And represented the university at both cricket and Rugby football? Excellent. Mens sana in ah corpore, in fact, sano, yes! He folded the letter carefully and replaced it in his pocket. 'Your primary object in coming to me, Mr Burns, is, I gather, to learn the ah the ropes, the business? You have had little or no previous experience of school-mastering? 'None whatever.
How could these rustauds have an opinion about "natural wit," how could they have known the names of Ben and Drayton? When you come to Aubrey, publishing in 1680, sixty years after Shakespeare's death, you neglect to trace the steps in the descent of his tradition. The story of the school-mastering and of Shakespeare "knowing Latin pretty well," is of no value to me.
Of course it isn't much worse than school-mastering, I dare say; nobody can say he's performing a very useful function for the world by hammering a few lines of Ovid into the skull of poor stupid Blenkinsopp major, who after all will only use what he calls his education, if he uses it in any way at all, to enable him to make rather more money than any other tobacco-pipe manufacturer in the entire trade.
Spence, as they went downstairs, "is what I call a genuine sportsman." "My opinion neatly expressed," said Mr. Spence. "Come on the river. Or shall we put up a net, and have a knock?" "River, I think. Meet you at the boat-house." "All right. Don't be long." "If every day were run on these lines, school-mastering wouldn't be such a bad profession.
I was so angry at the mere thought that there and then I charged him with his perfidy. He laughed a short, contemptuous laugh. "And what for no," he answered; "at least I have a trade at my finger-ends. I can drive a plough. I can thresh a mow. At a pinch I can even shoe a horse. But you you have quit even the school-mastering!"