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Weyburn, Saskatchewan: C. Montjoy, 1982
Tales Teachers Told
Montjoy, Cora
Table of Contents
Cover
Dedication
Foreword
Education
An Unusually Large Number of Pupils
A Real Generation Gap
Can you Really Believe This?
A Former Pupil's Tribute to his Teacher
A Beginner
Just a "Puddycat"
The Journey to My First School
My First Christmas Concert
Inspectors
Difficulty with Horses
Teaching School
Is There a Teacher Living Here?
Much Experience
Worms Eye View
An Unexpected Duty
The Thunder Mug
The Teacher Also Learns
His First Rain
Help From Grade Nine
Life for a Teacher in the Twenties
Mice and Bees
A Rewarding Year
The Early Forties
Arbor Day
Sometimes It Takes a Threat
Rhythm
Anecdote
1921
Horses
Teaching School in the Early Days
1913
Substitute Teacher
Number One
The Worked and Played Together
A Lonely Cold Day
Two Schools
The Inspector
Blizzard in 1893
A Grape Basket Full of Applications
This is the Way it Was
Santa on Fire
My Very First Day
Footprints in Chalk Dust
Red Measles
Amateur Dentist
First School
Second
Norway House
Just Bees
What Else?
Grasshoppers
Three Hundred Lines!
Fire on Friday
The Very First Term in a New School
Two Christmas Stories
The School In the Community
Muscle Men
Storms!
Barb-Wire Phone
Concert Fun
Runaway
A Very Careful Job
The Blizzard
An Odd Arbor Day
There Were Such Inspectors
And Such Teachers
A Surprised Teacher
Christmas Concert
Alberta in the Twenties
Some Slow Ones
Mice and Other Things
Small Difficulties
A Life Long Interest in Education
An Unwanted Guest
Cots at School
Car on Fire
Good Boys
A Special Mouse
A Lesson in Hygiene or Teaching by the Open-Window Method
A Different Location
Quite a Journey
A Very Real Scare
Sometime In 1936
An Eighteen Year Old Copes
Bush Teacher
Christmas Incidents
Dust and More Dust
Afternoon Tragedy
8-0 in Favor of the Country Kids
From a Happy Teacher
I Taught in 1914
A Jealous Landlady?
A Teacher for Twenty-Four Years
No Regrets
Memories of a First School
Just a Broken Leg
Any Teacher Worked Hard
Teaching in Saskatchewan in the Thirties
Boarding Houses
The Best and The Worst
A Sad Loss
No Fire At Thirty Below
Whole Chicken
Memories of My Teaching Days
Ramblings of an Ex-Schoolmarm
Red Letter Days
A Section Inspection
Not Quite Understood
Unexpected Visitors
This Story is from the Fifties
Last in the Book
List of Contributors
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