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painfully aware that the boy has had a knack of coming in at every 

 turn and corner, like King Charles's head in the case of " Uncle 

 Dick " ; the eternal boy, that engrossing and absorbing subject, that 

 most interesting and most baffling of all studies ; who is always the 

 same, yet never the same, a very chameleon of inconsistencies, with 

 lights and shades which are constantly varying, the plague of your 

 life, but the most cheery and attractive of personalities ! In my 

 attempted analj'sis of the South African boy, it will be noticed per- 

 haps that I have not diiferentiated him as Dutch or English. We 

 are one nation now, for better or worse ; Tros Tyrhisre mihi nullo 

 discrimhie habetur. And finally, as to my nominal, but, I fear me, my 

 sadly neglected subject, the Teacher, I would say : The schoolmaster 

 in South Africa, if he loves his work and does not regard it as mere 

 drudgery, has a happy, useful life. In this country, where the 

 "dignity of labour" is so richly recognised, he enjoys a good position 

 and status ; and if, from a financial point of view, his profession is not 

 a very lucrative one, yet he has the privilege of taking part in a work 

 which is second to none in importance to this subcontinent of ours, 

 with all its possibilities and dreams of future greatness. To my fellow- 

 teachers I say in the words of Virgil : fortuiiati . . . sua si bona 

 norint ! 



