Saturday, February 25, 2006

Trappist

At school, too, she was known as a quiet girl until, one day, Mister Thatcher, the history teacher hit on the precise definition. When they found out what that meant, the other girls laughed all the more at the afflicted Nunn.

2 Comments:

Blogger maldoror said...

hard to believe he was really called mister thatcher... sounds like a pseudonym

11:28 am  
Blogger sp said...

hard to believe it may be but this correspondent can testify that Mr Thatcher is alive and well, though now retired from Tunbridge where he taught for forty years. Readers may be interested to know that Mr Thatcher remains active and continues to apply his keen mind to his life times work, the genealogy of New Englander morals.

8:25 pm  

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