HE WAS A GENTLEMAN.
Reading edition
Some amusing stories are told of the wit and wisdom of London school children. A class of boys in a Board School was being examined orally in Scripture. The history of Moses had been for some time a special study, and one of the examiners asked,—“What would you say of the general character of Moses?”
“He was meek,” said one boy.
“Brave,” said another.
“Learned,” added a third boy.
“Please, sir,” piped forth a pale-faced, neatly dressed lad; “he was a gentleman!”
“A gentleman!” asked the examiner. “How do you make that out?”
The boy promptly replied, in the same thin, nervous voice,—“Please, sir, when the daughters of Jethro went to the well to draw water, the shepherds came and drove them away; and Moses helped the daughters of Jethro, and said to the shepherds,—‘Ladies first, please, gentlemen.’”