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Good Morning Chief Thank You

Good Morning Miss Vorontosov

You can finally pronounce my name

Now I know where you grandson got his fine intelligence

You are wrong .It was the boy who taught me and with difficulty

You are late,Anna Vorontosov

Who is that young fool?

That is Paul Lathrope.He teaches also.

Hm He is pretty mad

A little too much I'm afraid

By Chief

Matawhero!!

Can you sharpen these pencils for me,dear!

And I want pencils not weapons

I already picked some good ones, Miss Vorontosov

You can pass them out

Mark,pass out the songbooks,please,dear

Oh,who let my fire out for me isn't that nice

Evans!!

How many times have I told you there is one firm rule in this madhouse

We don't slam people

-I want to kill him,Miss Vorontosov -Why?

-Because he is my little brother -But you must treat him with kindness

All-right,go into the store room, and sit quietly and think

I will pick them up for you,Miss Vorontosov

I think you should practice writing instead of hitting for a change

I am sick of writing

Here,and you write "I am sick of writing"

Page 5 in the songbook,children

Oh my poor Hinewaka

-You trampled my hand -My pretty girl

You will be my pet like all the others

I'll be your pet over all the others

Over all the others

Oh,how perfectly beautiful

Which one of you draw this beautiful devil, did you draw this?

Please don't shout so I can't understand anything

Matawhero,what are they saying?

The inspector of primary school

But the senior inspector isn't here now, he is away on leave

His bad stomach,you know,you remember

-This is a new one -Really?

-Want to know his name? -Let me tell

-All right.Mark,what is his name? -Mr WWJ Abercrombie

-When was he here? -This morning,when you were late

-What did he do? -He fell in the sand box

-We send him off pretty good -Oh my God,that was very kind of you

He spit out and retched

I think my darlings I will probably never see you again

The whole educational system in this part of the country needs a good shake up

No,I think any probable solution is a fire

with all school buildings to the ground and the authorities might take notice of it

How could you? How could you Mr Reardon?

What is that I have done now?

You are the headmaster and you must save me!

From what? And from whom?

Well,from the new inspector!

Ah,Miss Vorontosov he is not a harmful person

Yes,isn't he?

What if his about to downgrade me and then he will ask for my resignation

Did he say so?

Well,no I haven't seen him yet,but..

I have it, he is not dreadful at all

Little fall and that is natural

The school committee couldn't possibly advise with you being perfectly solemn

Children are blooming and blasting

but on top of their voices,they are not fit to be inspected

There is absolutely no law and order in my room,Mr Reardon

and furthermore I won't have any

Perhaps you could line up the tables

Oh,no

-More or less? -No

And shut the door when things won't float about

I would rather be fired than stifled

And the sandbox.Could it not be possible be put out of the door for my sake

I think what I need for a few weeks anyway

is a couple of extra arms and legs

Well,that is Mr Lathrope

Oh,he won't do it all

I like your frankness

I couldn't possible spare him anyway teaching 4ths 5ths and coaching as well

What I had in mind was someone from his class

A good,big sweet natured girl

I am looking for one myself

Come along with me,Madam, and we'll try,shall we?

Thank you,just one minute

Thank you very much

The innocent cries of children, they frighten me

Sounds like they are putting one and another to death

I think they would if they could

Actually I am a terrible coward you know

The boldest thing I ever managed to say is Good Morning Miss Vorontosov

Why do you never come to 11 o'clock tea?

Because I hate small talk..

..and because the headmaster won't let me put my feet on the table

-Poor man he is a fool -He is not..

Mr Deardon is a dear blundering bright eyed man

-What time is it? -12 mid night

This watch never seems to work on Fridays

Children,come along back to class now

I feel the same way,Fridays is the awful climax of the week

OK,run along

That watch must be dead for them,aren't you?

I am afraid I have never been bored in my life

Come on choose your sites and keep your voices down

What do you do for dinner?

Generally I eat

Seven,no I am really involved in that

How is it?Are you all right? Run along

Just a minute,I am really involved that

12 volumes 6 dinners..go inside

Run,Terina I'll be in just a minute

Sometimes..let's see if we could find the girl

-I am deeply offended -What at?

I have been here nearly for 6 months and you haven't asked me

Asked of what?

Go over the weekend

Well I have better things to do

Threw them all out

-No -Why not?

Well, because I think you Mr Lathrope you would be happier spending the weekend alone

What makes you say anything like that?

Well,I don't know

Well the hell with you and your bloody intuition

Get the ball off the ground

Look at them,they are all savages even as you and I

What about that girl?

-Bad choice -Why?

-She is my fouled player -You could have her on lunch hours

Oh,you are too kind

Whareparita!

-Mister? -Do you know Miss Vorontosov?

Oh yes,I have seven nephews in her class

They think that you are an angel

Will you like to be an assistant angel and do it for a week?

Forever

I can help her with her schoolwork,don't you think?

She can get along quite splendidly the question is can I?

-I think I must go anyway -Why,may I ask?

Miss Vorontosov is my ideal

Whareparita thank you Thank you Mr Lathrope

And what are the duties of an assistant for Miss Vorontosov

You are naive,first of all I want you to wipe everyone's nose

whether they need it or not

And try to keep these things off the floor, the children are always

Good Lord,why are everyone going into such a quiet nap,it's terrible

-He told us -Who told you?

-How do you do -Howdy,it is a bit crowded in here I think

I like it this way,I like it this way

My name is Abercrombie W W J Abercrombie,

Senior Inspector for the North Central School District

Sufferable title,isn't it?

Oh.I am sorry

You seem to have left your mark on me already

Please sit down

I suppose you want to inspect my roll poll but I don't keep a roll poll

I can't keep it,the numbers of my children varies in my class from week to week

I suspect from from hour to hour

So there is no point at all on keeping a roll poll

Yes I see

I suppose you want to see my workbooks too,

but you can't see my workbooks I have burned it

How I'm going to write down what I am going to do..

..when I never know what I am going to do

after I have done it

I don't like anything that comes in between me and the children

Reckless rules,clockwork, neat little figures,neat little columns,

with neat little uniform margins, it's all nonsense,it just won't work

Tuck in your shirt,Mr Aber..Matawhero

Blow your nose

This curious book

It was printed by me but composed by the children

May I borrow it for a day or two?

-You will find it shocking,I am afraid -I hope so.Good Day Miss Vorontosov

-You may take your shoes off Mark -No,Mam

I said take your shoes off

My mother says no,she said only wild maori boys take their shoes off

Well your mother runs nice and quiet pub..

and doesn't have to put up a clatter of 150 shoes on a wooden floor

Now Mark take off your shoes,please -Yes.Mam

-He's gone -Whose gone?

-My friend,my pal -And who is that?

Matawhero.He quit school.He told me so

-When? -Just now

He quit school

There will be one thing I will not stand for

Matawhero

Where did he go Mark?

Home.To his grandpa

-Ita,have you got a bullet screwdriver? -I might if I knew what it was

Good morning.Smells wonderful. What are you cocking?

Teacher.Stay for lunch.We have fresh fish..

and also ham peaches

I have had my lunch ,thank you at least I think I have

-I am looking for the chief where is he? -He is over in the meeting house

-Good Morning.Chief. -Teacher.Good Morning.Come in.

-Don't get up please -Thank you.I am happy to see you teacher

-Happy to see you too -Miss Vorontosov you are a saint

I was an angel the other day and I have been demoted

You are a saint.You perform miracles.

You have taught my stupid grandson to write

Listen if you have time, of course you have time

"Dear Grand Pa I hope you don't die. I hope you don't.

If you do go die.Please don't come back .Don't be a goat

Goat! I won't go in your house and touch your newspapers any more

I like my lunch the way you do it. Love your good grand boy Matawhero"

Mr Rauhuia I did not know that you were ill,is it serious?

Nothing is serious at my age, and in any case I don't have time to die

The people here can't get along without me, nor the school committee either

Nor the Royal Commission for the preservation of the cabbage tree

I wish I had time for all these worthy projects

But I don't

I have to make my grandson's lunch every day

Where is he? I have come to take him back

Where is he? Matawhero!!

Miss Vorontosov has very kindly come to see you

-Thank you Miss Vorontosov -She has come in a car to take you back

I am not going back,never,never

-Matawhero why did you run away? -I hurt my feelings

-What do you men? -It is not entirely his feelings..

There is a mark on his behind do you want to examine it?

-No,thank you chief,no. -It was made with a long stick

Who did it Matawhero?Who hit you?

-It was nobody,no one -Nobody must have a name..

..and I am determined to find out who it is -Why?

-Suppose it was a white child -That is possible

Chief,you know as well as I do

that when a white child strikes a maori child there are endless troubles

There will be no troubles,teacher,keep to ourselves,you and me and Matawhero

and whoever hurt his feelings with a stick,take him back

-Grandfather.I won't go,Grand Pa -Matawhero I have 46 children in my class

-43 -I have three more coming tomorrow

And I can't do everything alone I need your help

Whareparita is only a girl she had no experience

and you are the grandson of a chief, you know how to behave

I need you to keep those children from making firewood

from that ramshackle building

Will you help me? I am only ask you this once

Tuck in your shirt Matawhero

-Teacher where were you born? -Far away in a strange country

Which is that?

Called Pennsylvania

Does it not hurt you to be so far away from the place where you were born

No

-Good Bye Chief -Bye Grand Pa

Matawhero what are you doing down there?

Come up here.What are you frightened of?

Nobody

-Is that the silly man that hit you? -It's the stick that hit me

Pick up that ball

Mr Lathrope

Will you give me that stupid weapon

-Oh.I only hit him once. -Why?

He was too fast for me, one whack was all I could manage

Why did you hit him with this

Why?

Because he was climbing that monstrous tree going after a cat

When I told him to get down he wouldn't obey

I understand,Mr Lathrope,you were afraid so you hit out at the situation at the boy

What situation? Whatever nonsense. What are you referring to?

I think you are a child

I'll be in a minute

Just a minute

Now,you'll listen to me

I wish you had as much compassion for me as you do for that child

-I do.How long have you been a teacher? -Six months

How do you expect anyone to obey you. How indeed!

Well ,the first time a child looks down at you from way up over your head..

and challenges your rights to be a teacher, you wallop him with a stick

Authority by pain it won't do ,you know

It's not powerful enough

You are right

I am no bloody use of the child. I am going to chuck it the end of the term

Why are you so violent? Bloody this and bloody that

Because I am no bloody good that's why

The fact is that I am not a teacher at all. I am a singer

Or want to be,think I am

Probably not good at that either

Sometimes I know I could walk out on the center stage

and sing and electrify the world

Other times I think I am a bloody fraud

-I'll like to hear you sometimes -When?

-Anytime -That means nowhere and never

-I doubt it -Tonight then

All right

You have a piano at your cottage. I'll come there

How do you know that?

I have stopped and listen in the early mornings

It taught me to like Beethoven

Well,Beethoven very grateful I am assure

Shall I bring whisky or do you prefer rum?

I don't drink, you just bring your meal and nothing else

Schubert lied "Dein is mein herz"

-Isn't that the most wonderful bloody song -No,I don't think it is.

Where the devil do you keep your bloody matches?

Over there in something around something under something

You know,I thought I did that last legato wonderful,didn't you?

Well, it sort of flowed out of me poured like a cataract

-By God I am great don't you agree? -What time is it?

I want your opinion,and I want it now

Yes,it is only pose

I suppose you think my voice is bloody awful,don't you?

-No,I think you have a good voice -Good. There is a feeble word.

But it could be a fine voice,all it takes is little hard detailed passionate work

What details?

Well,your phrasing isn't clear, it's little too,

I do not know the word for it

I do it the way I feel it

Then,I think maybe you feel it a bit too sloppy

I need a match

Try this bowl

I am sorry

I am a stupid fool

Everything I do or want turns sour in the making

You are just exhausted,we have been working for nearly 5 hours now

-Would you like some hot tea? -No

No.I am never tired,never that's the trouble

I spent whole night chopping my life into bits

and putting it together again

Well,you just go home and open your windows wide and go to sleep

Alone I suppose?

Of course,alone

It feels sad

I want to stay

You can't Paul

No,I don't suppose I can

I can see one thing all too clearly

You are already involved,head heart and everything else

Your having a mad steamy passionate love affair with forty odd children

I think today, children, I shall tell you the story of Pogo

Are you listening?

Pogo was a very bad dog

Pogo went to the wild cattle, and he ate all the sacred food

Who do you suppose saw Pogo ate the sacred food?

The god Ohinuko saw Pogo eat the sacred food

and he made him so mad he went over to Pogo and swallowed him in one big bite

Pogo was Tama and Wakas doggie, and they loved him very much

They could not find him in any place

They looked all that day all that night and all the next days

they walked for miles and miles, from pa to pa to pa

But no Pogo until one morning, they came to the house of..

Ohinuko!!

Right,Tama and Waka walked and they said to Ohinuko

Have you seen our dog Pogo?

And Ohinuko said no,no,no,no, I have not seen your dog Pogo

He was lying

And Tama and Waka,they are so sad that they walked outside

and they sat on the ground and went Oh,Oh

And Pogo,inside Ohinuko's big fat stomach heard them

And he answered Oh,Oh,Oh

Tama and Waka knew that he was in there

And you know what they did?

They went to the woodshed and they got a big ax

and they cut Ohinuko in half, out was Pogo and

he was so happy he licked all their faces

What happened to Ohinuko after he was cut in half?

Tama and Waka borrowed a sewing machine

and they sew together the two halfs of Ohinuko again

and was just as good as ever

Only they sewed him on backwards

and from that on he walked around for the rest of his life backwards

Make it to the new girl

I beg you pardon I just gone by to return this little book

-Did you find it interesting? -Yes,frightfully.

All right,I'll have a try

My father is in jail,my mother has no money to get him out

She cried all night long

Now which of you children has a father in jail?

Mr Abercrombie,they are just exaggerating, they are only yelling

My father came out of jail

He cut my mother with a..

Now which of you children can read this monstrous word

Mr Abercrombie,teaching is emotional and why should it not be

Knife,jail,cut,kill they learn those words four times faster than any other word

They learn to read because they feel

Look at these books,just look at it, these silly respectable hoity-toity books

I am Tom,I have fun,my sister Anne has fun we have fun,fun,fun

How I hate that word fun

Where are the tears,Mr Abercrombie? Where are the tears?

There are no tears in this silly book

When sometimes this classroom is so flooded with tears

I have to thrill my way out

My children come from Maori villages, I want to bridge the gap

between their parents and these four walled of a box

with a leaky roof called Western education

Tears,Mr Abercrombie,must not be disallowed

I think you probably never wept in all your life, any

I'll try not to,if I feel any emotion coming on,I write a report

Nothing is possible,you know without a report

-Good Lord,what a loath moth -Paul

-How do you do,Madam -How do you do Paul

What can I do for you,Madam?

I don't dare to answer such a question

You know who I really am?

Of course I know you are hardworking school teacher

-Wrong.I am one of God's loved children -Do the children drink rum?

I said.Do you disapprove?

I do think I rather prefer you drunk than sober

You know,you have not invited me into your glass palace

Well take a look around you are already here

-Magic -Magic?

You are the most fascinating person I ever met

Nobody knows how lonely I am

But that is not a rare disease you know

Where is your silly green motorcycle?

It is abandoned me for the night

How cruel

-If you abandon me to -Not yet

Well,then take me home

But don't talk

Don't antagonize me,don't destroy me

Well,you have already done a good job all by yourself

I was in the navy..

I got sick,they put me in this bloody dread white hospital suit

Lice's blessing,I went smashing everyone of these bloody lice

They send me home to mother

Mother came to see me I was living in a room in London

Thought I was a painter,maybe I was

She brought me some cakes for tea

I kept them for months until they turned hard

And I put them out on the window and the rain

and they turned as green and mouldy in the rain

How old are you

Sometimes I feel seventy, sometimes I feel twelve

Women,I love women

I love all pretty women in the world

My father he never did a day's work in his life

Dead now,poor chap

Always wanted me to come and hunt on our estate in Scotland

I never would,can't do anything, do you realize that?

Why disappointed? Or would you rather I was the sporting type?

who likes more than anything else in the world to shoot the red fox

and watch him die with all the dogs about him

with the great scraping wound in his fur

There is your place

Yes,the old shack

The bloody grand Caledonian hotel, popularly known as the bunch of grapes

How did you know where to deliver the body?

-You told me so -You should never have listened to me

I hate the place

-Paul,Paul -As a torturer,unbiased female giant

eleven o'clock,already shut up ,tighter than a fish

You'll be soaking wet

You know I will be..I can't find my keys

Mrs Cutter Mrs Cutter

Don't look into her face until someone tell you

Wait for you,you stupid,get up

It is you again Mr Lathrope and Miss Vorontososv

I will come and give you some help, so nice of you bringing him home

He just adores you but he won't say why

-I think he mislaid his keys -He got it in his hands

-Perfect.I think he is a little bit drunk -He is worse than that I can tell you..

..he is a cruel streak in him you can tell by the eyes

Let's go of me your harlots of Babylon

I have a rendez vous with a sweet old lady business appointment with Lady debt

-She is a adorable,I love her magic -Paul,Please

His got no friendship.I wonder why

He is strictly a young man, good on occasions,

he would take a girl up to his room, wouldn't you,but he doesn't, never

-Can I make you some tea? -No,Good night

Why doesn't he turn his light on?

Mrs Cutter Mrs Cutter

Do you think I have any right to live,Mrs Cutter?

As long as you pay your rent,Mr Lathrope

Paul,why don't you go inside

And you,Anna Vorontosov,what do you think?

-Shall I go on breathing -Please do

-Why?

Because Mr Lathrope,it is bloody hard to get teachers,drunk or sober,that is why

Thank you,dear people thank you for your confidence,

I shall endeavor to deserve it

I shall make the supreme sacrifice and live until tomorrow

Come in please

-Good afternoon. -Good afternoon.Please sit down

How very kind of you to come down and visit me in my bureaucratic dungeon

You are looking very well,glowing indeed

Yes.I have been shopping things

the school committee absolutely refuses to issue

Oh,dear,I am sorry,perhaps I could

Oh,no.I am quite all right.I have a visit.

It was very kind of you to offer though

-I have come about Mr Lathrope -Paul Lathrope,so I see

-Has he been any trouble to you? -No.Not at all.We had a nice little chat.

He is very intelligent young man don't you think ,quite remarkable in fact

-But he says such things -What sort?

-Piercing,frightening things -What for example?

Well, it is nothing what he says,it his tone.It's the tone

-Sad,what he's doing? -No.Very elated.Very fancy.Rhetorical

Also very drunk

Oh,no.Even if he were, drunk shows what you are

And what is he, Miss Vorontosov in your opinion

Shall I go on living he said, joking of course

Well,he shouldn't joke about things like that

Because he is much younger than his age

No.Staff records J-L.Full options

As a person could be bashed flat and put into a folder

But there it is.Lathrope Paul. Served under fire in the navy

Two dreadful engagements, came through without a scratch

Explosion came later.Inside.

No.Please go on.It is all right. You can tell me

Naval hospital. The Yarmouth.

Borrowed a hunting rifle out of store.Unauthorized.

Tried to kill himself.Also unauthorized

And yet.I have the greatest confidence in that young man

I kept the demands against these school committee’s miserable doubts

Why?

We need people with fire dangerous though they are

But if they go back to hurt him instead

Well,there is the man.Have you done enough for him already?

All those hours with the piano. Coming to school

Sleepless in the mornings

How do you know about that?

I know about all sorts of things, which does not fit in a file

How many in your class?

46 this morning anyway

Make it 47

Yes.I suppose you are right.

What Paul needs is a great big wooly mother

You are a remarkable woman.

Well.I am not really and I don't want to be either

-Do you know Mount Terenaki? -Yes.I see him from every window

Have you ever set a foot on him?

That sacrilegious

I don't think he minds,even his maoris, I suspect,he is very sociable indeed

It is only that bumptiousness,tediously mostly manage to borrow the school bus,

come Sunday next we are going to drive as far as we can pass the snowline

Why don't you join us?

Thank you,but I am afraid that I can't

You can see round about for several hundred miles

Sometimes in the grey line of the mist gives you the impression you can see China

-Oh,that is absurd -Yes it is absurd.I quite agree

Whareparita

Will you take over from me please

-Arms get tire -Yes.Miss Vorontosov

Here we go Nomak

Into the fire

Hinewaka what's wrong

What's the trouble? What's the trouble?

-Don't burn me -No I won't burn you

We are burning the bugs, don't you want a nice clean hair

Don't burn me.Don't burn me

I'll be your mummy

You know Whareparita,you are changing before my very eyes

Am I?

You seem somehow older or maybe dreamier

-I know -I wonder if you know

Oh,yes I do,Miss Vorontosov

Well you see there are certain chemical body changes

that take place in a woman

Oh,we had that in social hygiene last year how the cells ripening

and then the eggs so one can have babies

Have you ever looked in a microscope? It is really smashing

I never knew a drop a water could be so crowded

like a shopping on Friday night

Paul

What can I do for you Madam

Go home.It is three in the morning, don't you ever bed

I prefer yours

Go away, and leave me to my imagination

Oh,I would never do anything as rude as that

If only that inspector could you see now

that tree covered monster

Go home

He'll give you top marks if there was any man left in the old cask

Where was you this evening six hours ago we would go over Brahms

Brahms is dead, dead,poor chap, and in the last century too

Fat cigars and stuffy women

If you won't let me through the window then open the door

Stop that.And I won't open the door either

I'm half way drunk,a bad state to be in

Either you give me some more rum or boil up some tea to make me disgustingly sober

And I am sober,that all that matters

Oh madam

Madam,you could be that woman

Your friend Balzac said

"There is nothing so beautiful as the first love of a man..

with the last love of a woman"

Balzac at twenty and his mistress at forty five

I'm hardly forty five and you are hardly Balzac

I am going to by a bottle of ink, paper and a pen and become a writer

The Balzac of New Zealand

-What! -The Balzac of New Zealand

Why not?

It needs one now

The Human Comedy of Manu Rua

What the devil is that

A book of instructions

It's a diary

-Is it yours? -Years ago

But it is empty

Censored before it was written

I don't think I want it

You said that you wanted to write Didn't you? Don't you mean what you say

I mean everything I say

I know you wanted a diary put down your thoughts a page a day

The way you are practicing the piano

I could fill fifty books like this

Even if you were truthful?

If I were truthful,every page would say Anna Vorontososv

How nice to be a heroine

What was the name you didn't write?

Ned

Same as Eugene

Eugene.What?

That's all I want to say now

He was a beast like me

No.He wasn't.He was a student of higher mathematics

He had three degrees and was boning for his fourth

He used to live on coffee and peanuts..

He wandered around with salts in his pockets all the time

And he wouldn't marry,I suppose, dreadful man?

He said he was too poor.And he was.

The poorest man I ever knew. Used to wear local papers in his shoes

And because he wouldn't marry you cut off his love

No.You see

You wouldn't sleep with him?

I couldn't.

End of Eugene

End of almost.

Luckily my father had two enemies

One steamship sickness and one aunt in Wellington

Very windy weather

The aunt or Wellington?

It was good for me.They blow away my bad dreams

Shall I tell you something ghastly?

My name is Eugene

Did you know that there was no air on the moon?

That's frighten you

Certainly not

It was where I was born

I was pitched head first down to the sky

I'm lost down here among the humans

And what the rest of us?

Shall I do ,Anna?

I have come to the edge of this

I need to change and I'm stifling as I am

I need somebody to help me, will you and nobody else

What can I do?

-Open the door -I can't.I can't

Why?Are you so happy sleeping alone?

I am so used to it

Coward.Coward

Hey,Sir

Mr What's your name.Mr inspector.Sir

I just want to tell you something

I lorried it from the town hall. Can you use it?

Specially large types for your gigantic children

I wanted a machine like this all my life

Only to write emotional words like knife,policeman,jail,love

What do you mean?

-I don't quite know -A senior inspector who doesn't quite know

Anna,look here,Anna

Who is it? Is it anyone we know?

It's the mother,little Mark as a matter of the fact

Would you like to escape through the back door?

No.I am sure she did as well

Mothers ought to be abolished

Impractical

-Lovely day -Is it?

-Take my word for it,Madam -I beg you pardon,Sir..

buy you have been pointed out to me as the inspector for school

-Guilty -It is about my little boy Mark

-You'll never believe this -Oh,I will,I will

She let a wild maori girl comb my little boy's hair

-Ghastly -Last night.What do you think?

I found another of them beasts

Lice do you mean?

I can't bring myself to use the filthy word

-Horrid -What did you do with horrid little beast

-I quashed him,inspector -Well done

Tell me was it a white one or a wild black maori one

I didn't come here to be mocked

and dis-appreciated I'll get my satisfaction higher up

-Good Day,Sir -Good day

Higher up,is there anything higher up than a senior inspector

God I suppose,assuming that he is white

Mr Abercrombie,about that mountain excursion I have changed my mind

The mountain won't come to me I would rather go to it

-Is it Saturday? -Sunday directly after church

My name is William

-Bring boots -All right

Oh,thank you

We are climbing now

-Glad to have come? -Oh,yes

-But -I am bit nervous today,that's all

That's a dead volcano,hasn't killed anyone for years

I am happy with volcanoes,I have much of them in my class,male and female

Hey,go around about

Come on,go down,get out of my way

Thank you

He is such a child

-Oh,I forgot my boots -Boots

-You knew I would,didn't you. These are women's

Are they really?

Sir,what other pockets do you have?

A couple of dozens.I am old for one

Oh, Yes,very.

-I have a couple of sons -I saw them on the photograph

They have grown now

One chap at St Edmund's Medical School. Doing marvelously well

The other one at Oxford wasting his time and my money

And?

And?

And I am married

Yes I know

In fact but not in spirit

Where is your wife? I never hear you speak of her

Glorious London.She doesn't like New Zealand. Never did

Particularly up here in the North

Finally she did not like me either

Fearful headache,so on. My boys went back with her

They didn't mind I think

The young never do

As I did

Some ties are hard to break,good or bad

Careful,Anna,don't slip

Oh,hello.I am terribly sorry. I am out practice..

I was aiming at the inspector

You look silly anyway

Match anybody?

Paul,didn't you bring any food with you?

No,mother.I prefer to dine on fresh air and a bit of chocolate

Oh,come on,Lathrope,stay with us, we have got plenty of lunch

Thanks the workdays are virtuous and questions enough

I prefer my Sundays to be heathen

You are home late.Where have you been?

Btw I am not really here at all

Look I think you are somehow

You know you never make appointments but just appears

Very touching.Insulting too

Are you angry?

No

I brought you a bottle of the best

Very rare on these windy outpost of the Empire

I had to charm that battleaxe of landlady to get it at all

I don't drink.You know that

What is that in that tea caddy?

In there.

Brandy

Who drinks? This chap on the wall I suppose

-I do.Once a day.Medicine -For what?

Fright

What are you afraid of?

Daylight.The terrors of the sun

I had enough talk of mystification

What you mean is you are afraid of men

We poor miserable men

Pity you.We are half of the human race you know

Have you done it,the house will fall in

You know,I don't think you care all that much about a house without a man

Whom do you refuse,besides Eugene and me?

Million

But not in a sort of life

Isn't it though?

What you want is to be born again

-True -Arabian dancer

A house full of mirth, on the walls,ceiling,floor

A wall full of roses,when you try to climb it,

fall to buckthorn,like barbed wire,why?

I am afraid of the evening and nights.

Poor wall,poor thief,poor Anna

You got your late of disease

Of course it is not your fault

You were poisoned as a child by that thick puritan malted american look

Sex and marriage.You can't tell them apart

No,Paul

Brush the rice of the bed and nail the license to the wall

You the american girl born quite normal virtue

But managed by a hard course of physical training

to become more and more virgin year by year

Stop it

Poor Anna

I used to think,she is not cold

merely asleep and I wake her up

Sleeping beauty

Keep your little wings. I wouldn't pluck them for the world

While I have gone and touched you

and the truth is you are not asleep, you are not cold either

What you have is incurable, you are not a woman at all

It is not true

Whareparita ,Whareparita

Whareparita .What is it?Are you all right?

-Where is Hinewaka? -I am here.I am dead

Don't be silly.I am perfectly all right

It is that I forgot to eat my lunch

Well,we have got some cookies, chocolate cookies and some milk here

Some chocolate cookies,I adore chocolates I could eat a million of them

You are so kind Miss Vorontosov, how did you get to be so kind?

It takes practice I can tell you that

all right children that’s fine,there is nothing wrong she is just hungry

don't fall in the water be very careful

you may play in the boat

I think as soon as we get back

we will march you right up to the clinic so they can take a look at you

I did a clinic the day before yesterday

What for?

What did Dr Prescott say?

He says,I will mostly have the baby in six months and seventeen days

Have what?

He also said I was pregnant

Matawhero

Take Hinewaka over and play and don't go too near the water

One day I am going to have twins

Does your mother know about this?

Oh yes and all my little sisters

And what did they say?

They are very happy they like babies

they like fun in the house and lots of noise

I am crazy about the parties we have, when we got the baby.Don't you?

-Whose the father,some relative? -Why do you want to know?

Because I think you want to protect him but you shouldn't

A father has a responsibility

He can't just make children and then get up and walk away whistling

I don't care,I have got plenty of relatives,I don't need a husband

Later maybe, but now I am too young

Whareparita ,how old are you, are you sixteen years?

No,Mam I was fifteen last month or was it next month,my mummy is not sure

-Good afternoon Mr Rauhuia -Good afternoon teacher

So nice of you to visit me again

-How are you feeling.Better? -Yes,better

I have come about Whareparita

I have checked with Dr Prescott. It is true.She is pregnant

He is a good doctor.Excellent

I think we should find the father

we should make them help us, we should not let this drift on and on

What is Whareparita saying?

Nothing.She is perfectly happy to have twins imaginary I hope

Why? A woman is built for twins

Teacher.Where are your babies? How many do you have?

-I never had any babies -Why not? are you sick?

Of course I am not sick

If you are sick you should go to the clinic

But I am not sick

Bad luck.Penicillin is not painful.Miss Vorontosov

Mr Rauhuia, we are not like that

There are plenty of men

Well I am not looking for any men

This is not good.A tree without water

I never thought of men like water exactly

-What then -Lightning

Afraid of getting burned.Teacher you will have plenty of trouble having children

Mr Rauhuia never mind my problems what about Whareparita?

What is wrong? We love Whareparita. We love all children

The more we have them the better we love them

What could be more natural,I read great reports in the newspaper

Too many children in the world

Fortunately this is not a world problem, this is local problem

Then Whareparita is only a child, a child about to have another child

I think the father should step forward,do you see that?

-Yes.I see that -Good

I will be the father if you want one

I love that children parties

Miss Vorontosov, if you find a man and you decide to have a baby

and you have no time to take care of him bring him here

We will take care of him, we will love him

Thank you very much,indeed

But you don't agree?

No,Mr Rauhuia I am most certainly do not agree

-Good afternoon -Good afternoon teacher

-Very interesting -Yes.Isn't it?

I was very pleasantly surprised of the department and you

Oh,the authority

-Sit down -No

Well it is about your book

In the last committee meeting Mr Abercrombie

had the temerity to read it aloud

"My father is in jail,my mother has no money to get him out,

she cried all night long,he came home from jail,he cut mama with a knife"

"cut mama with a knife"

The department was rather impressed

Mr Abercrombie suggested that they print a few thousands

-Prison? -There would only be a few changes

of course the department. What is the matter?

If you are going to print it, there can't be any changes

No changes at all,don't you see, I did not write it,my children wrote it

so if there is going to be changes the children will have to agree

but the department could go down and consult the children

No,no,please,no.The sandbox do you remember

The sandbox.I could have a sign put over the door "Beware of the children"

Where have you been for the last few weeks?

Traveling.Inspecting.Waiting

-Reasons for visiting again. -Back to class children

Married man has to have a very good solid reason you know

Married men are nice to lean on

There are so much left riddled

All right,left you go,straight over

You won't have dinner with me I suppose?

Well I think you should take a plane or a ship and have dinner with your wife

-I have had dinner with my wife -When?

Last time I had holiday, a month before I met you

Then did it go a little better?

Yes.As a matter of fact it did.

Headaches were gone And she said don't, you know softer voice

And not talked enough?

Not enough in any way

Look I wish you

-Hello,for me? -Six pence just for you

-Why? -Just for you to get a beer

-You like beer? -As a matter of fact I do

-Cheers -Cheers

Matawhero just because you gave him six pence does not excuse you for being so late

I have been to the hospital with my grandpa

Is your grandpa sick?

No,not grandpa.It is the ghost.

Matawhero there are no such things as ghosts

-There are. -Have you ever seen one?

No.But Whareparita .She has

Whareparita ?

She is in the hospital,Miss Vorontososv. We visited her,my grandpa and I

She was lying on her bed with white dress no buttons

What is the matter with her?

-Ghosts. -Ghost.What do you mean ghosts?

Came to her in the form of baby into her stomach

You run along and take care of my class for me

Whareparita. How do you feel?

I don't why they put me in the children's ward

-You don't speak with your mouth full.. -It is humiliating

It is a poor hospital.

They cannot afford a teenage maternity ward.

-Normal. -I know I was normal

-I am going to get up -You are certainly not getting up

You shall stay in bed until Dr Prescott sees you

They have to get me back the thing which belongs to me

The very first night,when I couldn't sleep

It was not just the pain but all sorts of silly thoughts

What kind of silly thoughts?

I once had a little koala bear

I slept with it until it was eaten in half by a rat

We used to have lots of rats at home.

I used to kill them with a broom

Dead

Hi Dannie

Dannie is going to be very careful with handling of fireplace,aren't you Dannie?

Isn't sweet? This part of is Kanga the other part is Ruth

Now.You keep it.Be a good boy

What's the matter?

I hate hospital and sufferings.

Don't feel to bad.I can always have another child

as many as I want,Dr Prescott told me not to worry

-what said Dr Prescott -I don't think I wait

You get back

You think I am bad,don't you?

No,I ..

You do because I went and had a baby which you think is absolutely wrong

Yes I suppose I do

What's wrong about it ,Miss Vorontosov?

Because it is plain and simply wrong to have children before you are married

But why?

Because it is,it is,that's all, don't you see that?

I want to,really I do,everything you say is so true,I mean

mostly I state your opinion, and I wish I could be just like you

Beautiful and kind

Isn't it wonderful?

It isn't that wonderful

To be a woman

I think you are the woman and I'm the child

Wait a minute young lady

Where do you think you are going

I haven't dismissed you yet

-Pick up tomorrow -Thank you

-Hello -Hello

What's the latest news?

What do you hear from our people.

Ah,Venus,Venus ,there's a woman

,goddess of the tumbled bed

Generosity in every direction

How are you,Anna Vorontosov?

Why don't you take your silly green motorcycle and go away

I am going to sell that green monster

and buy a Geiger counter and look for your rate

-I tell you -Very practical..

don't you feel some sort of vague responsibility about your class

I have resigned from all that. I have sent a letter to Mr Abercrombie

I am going to walk these green New Zealand hills

Breathing the fine fresh air

tasting the way you act of reign

and when I found you were a human claim,my fortune

I can relax,sing write in my diary

and when heathen sins,make love to you, Anna,my little makeshift Venus

I could do a bit of crying

horrible,improper crimes

and the worst crime of all

is me

Oh,Anna

Can you give me one absolute reason for living?

-Just one -Of course I can.There is work to be done

Work you could do

Now,why don't you go and blow you nose and wash your face and relax

With your permission let you take me in your arms

carry me to my room hang a slide on the door

Monster at work

Why not?

Because you are a fraud,you are a child in man's clothes

I love you,Anna

I love you

I love you Anna,isn't that the magic formula

Opens,Sesame

The God Father

The devil come for your bloody soul

Helas,poor Father,I knew him well

pig-sticking with your bloody dogs, let me be your dog father

red for calm,year to die

I am always glad for sugar in my tea, I suppose it is bad for the kid

If one lives for the sake of one kid

It's nice tea

I can't go back to school.it is too silly

I'll get a job

I think you should stay in school as long you can

Why?

Because you'll make a fine teacher, we need teachers

You don't understand

Yes I do

Did you know him very long?

First time I run into him

I thought he was a ghost, it was 10 o'clock at night

She was working near the river where

dime of chocolate could be given

She said she had nobody to give them to

I always loved chocolate but I don't much any more

If I only kept the baby but the ghost got them,a woman ghost

in white shoes and long dress

three, no four of them like a dog

There is no thing like a ghost you know that

-No,it was a ghost I saw it.I saw it -Stop it

Mrs Cutter gave this to me but I think it belongs to you

My name,my name

I meant come yesterday, had to talk to the newspapers

Try to make some sense,didn't but

Chilly in here

-Have you eaten? -No

-And you cried -Not enough

-Will you like go into town? -No

When we heard him fire the shot on the mountain

It was a warning, but I never paid any attention to it

Never it occurred to me to ask what about the gun, why do you keep a gun

I never thought of the motorcycle

No,perhaps it was not intentional after all

But it was,it was,I could have stopped him

Non such thing,sheer vanity

nobody dies because of anything what you do or do not do

Paul looked into the image of his own nature

and rendered his own verdict

and that is the truth

You could accuse yourself of kindness,nothing more

I think if I just been able to give myself to him

I could have saved him

No,it wouldn't.It might have saved you

Would you like some coffee?

Yes,and something to eat with it

Egg and toast?

Cut bread thick

Feeling better?

I'd rather hoped I wouldn’t,but I do

Isn't against the school committee rules

to hold the woman school teacher by the hand?

Ah,don't joke

It's no use to me.I'm cold, do you know that?

A lot,you won't be,I promise you, dear

It is just you postponed and postponed

Avenue?

I gave over trying to be happy and settled for being interested

Doing the job,all and that

except that time rushed on

and it drowned me,lately I refused to be drowned

Look here, I wrote Lauren three weeks ago,I told her straight

If she won't get a divorce, I'll get them myself,I will

I love you

-Damn -Damn what?

-You whistle -Why not

Because it is so smug

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