The Old Womans Complaint, or the Greek Alphabet
Thomas Rowlandson British
Publisher Thomas Tegg British
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An elderly schoolmaster sits at left addressing an old countrywoman who faces him. Four boys stand behind her. The schoolmaster says: "Good woman you are always making complaints against my Scholars, what have they done to offend you now?" She answers: "Please your Honors Worship they followd me up and down—and said one to another—At her!—beat her! damn her!—pelt her!— and a great deal more that I do not recollect." The leader of the boys bows and says: "Indeed Sir, we were only repeating our Greek Alphabet, in order to get quite perfect—what the Old Woman heard was only Alpha—Beta— Gamma—Delta—and so on to the conclusion."
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