A Citizen of the Future This is' a true story.
A young school-mistress, in charge of a particularly tough and unruly mixed-class of teen-agers at a secondary school, was sent for in the middle of a lesson by the headmistress. Fearing that the uproar consequent upon her departure would be audible throughout the interview (for the headmistress was in an adjacent part of the building), she selected the 'largest and fiercest hooligan and told him, not very hopefully, that he was responsible for keeping order until she returned. To her relief and surprise, a deathly hush reigned among her pupils' throughout her absence, and as she walked back to the class-room she wondered how on earth the ghastly youth had done it. The answer was simple. Announcing that anyone who opened his mouth would be shot, he had kept his fellow-pupils covered with a Service revolver, -loaded in all six chambers. STRIX
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