Punch,  60 (1871), 228.

Elementary Education—The Conscience Clause

C K *

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

C K *

Subjects:

Education, Schools, Mathematics, Narcotics, Morality


    Shows a crowded classroom in one of the new board schools. A 'Temperate Parent' introduces his son to the 'District Schoolmaster' and urges the teacher to 'abstain from teaching my little Jonadab, here, to work sums in ale or beer or spirit measures, as he's been brought up a stric' teetotaller and jined the band of 'ope!!'.



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