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The Head-master.
校长先生
Friday, 18th.
星期五，18日。
Coretti was pleased this morning, because his master of the second class, Coatti, a big man, with a huge head of curly hair, a great black beard, big dark eyes, and a voice like a cannon, had come to assist in the work of the monthly examination. He is always threatening the boys that he will break them in pieces and carry them by the nape of the neck to the questor, and he makes all sorts of frightful faces; but he never punishes any one, but always smiles the while behind his beard, so that no one can see it. There are eight masters in all, including Coatti, and a little, beardless assistant, who looks like a boy. There is one master of the fourth class, who is lame and always wrapped up in a big woollen scarf, and who is always suffering from pains which he contracted when he was a teacher in the country, in a damp school, where the walls were dripping with moisture. Another of the teachers of the fourth is old and perfectly white-haired, and has been a teacher of the blind.
可莱谛今天在学校里很高兴，因为他三年级的旧先生到校里来做试验监督来了。这位先生名叫考谛，是个肥壮、大头、鬈发、黑颈的先生，目光炯炯，话声响如大炮。这先生常恐吓小孩们，说什么要撕断了他们的手足交付警察，有时还要装出种种可怕的脸孔。其实他决不会责罚小孩的，无论何时，总在胡须底下作着笑容，不过被胡须遮住，大家都看不出他。男先生共有八人，考谛先生之外，还有像小孩一样的助手先生。四年级的先生是个胶子，平常围着大的毛项巾，据说他在乡间学校的时候，因为校舍潮湿，壁里满是湿气，就成了病，到现在身上还是要作痛哩。那一级还有一位白发的老先生，据说以前曾做过盲人学校的教师。
There is one well-dressed master, with eye-glasses, and a blond mustache, who is called the little lawyer, because, while he was teaching, he studied law and took his diploma; and he is also making a book to teach how to write letters. On the other hand, the one who teaches gymnastics is of a soldierly type, and was with Garibaldi, and has on his neck a scar from a sabre wound received at the battle of Milazzo. Then there is the head-master, who is tall and bald, and wears gold spectacles, with a gray beard that flows down upon his breast; he dresses entirely in black, and is always buttoned up to the chin. He is so kind to the boys, that when they enter the director's room, all in a tremble, because they have been summoned to receive a reproof, he does not scold them, but takes them by the hand, and tells them so many reasons why they ought not to behave so, and why they should be sorry, and promise to be good, and he speaks in such a kind manner, and in so gentle a voice, that they all come out with red eyes, more confused than if they had been punished.
另外还有一位衣服华美，戴了眼镜，留着好看的颊须的先生。他一边教书，一边自己研究法律，曾得过证书。所以得着一个对、律师”的绰号。这位先生又著过书简文教授法之类的书。教体操的先生原来是军人，据说属于格里巴第将军的部下，项颈上留着弥拉查战争时的刀伤，还有一位就是校长先生，高身秃头，戴着金边的眼镜，半白的须，长长地垂在胸前；经常穿着黑色的衣服，纽扣一直扣到腮下。他是个很和善的先生。学生犯了规则被唤到校长室里去的时候总是战战兢兢的，先生并不责骂，只是携了小孩的手好好开导，叫他下次不要再有那种事，并且安慰他，叫他以后做好孩子。他声气和善，言语亲切，小孩出来的时候总是红着眼睛，觉得比受罚还要难过。
